Symbols on drawings show up as boxes

[JM_8847223]

I'm making a drawing of a model that was created by someone else. When I show the dimensions on the drawing - all of the symbols show up as square blocks.  The numbers are fine, but the symbols for diameter, counterbore, depth etc. all show up looking like square blocks. Anybody know a reason why?

[Sarvesh_B]

Hi @JM_8847223 ,

You can refer to the article CS265761 this might help you to resolve the issue.

Thanks & Regards,

Sarvesh

[llie · Accepted solution]

We experienced the same issues. You will need to change the model and the drawing properties to the following. We made two mapkey for our users.

Drawing: set the symbol_font to stroked_asme

Driving model in drawing: set the symbol_font to stroked_asme

[BenLoosli]

The boxes in place of text means that your computer does not have the font that the original was created with. 

Are these TrueType fonts or a PTC font, like Font or IsoFont?

[llie]

@BenLoosli  ours used to be isofont and we hand to switch to stroked_asme for drawing and non-mbd models. 
For MBD models we had to use asme. It is a weird issue that PTC recognizes and fixed in Creo Parametric 7.0.10.0 I believe.