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#1 James Quesenberry

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Posted 18 September 2015 - 01:56 PM

My old CAD system had extended characters that allowed us to add certain symbols to our text like a plus/minus,degree or diameter symbol. Does SP have something similar?

 

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#2 D M

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Posted 18 September 2015 - 03:00 PM

Yes, .. Softplan will respond (sort of) to the old ASCII character codes, .. (you can also check your Windows Character Map for the Fonts you use)

 

examples, .. Alt+0176 will give you degrees °, .. Alt+0177 results with ±, , ..

 

.. again some work, some don't, .. but thru the character map you can cut and paste whatever's available within your chosen font.


.. invariably, someone will have a simpler solution.


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Posted 18 September 2015 - 08:33 PM

As Doug says some fonts are different. So check within the Character set. I personally prefer BabelMap, It gives a little bigger preview for those of us with failing eyesight. A good UNICODE font may contain a few thousand characters. Check out the characters available in ARIAL UNICODE MS.

 

I remember degrees ° = ALT+248 and squared ² = ALT+253, but there again I remember using the ASCII codes to draw boxes with double and single lines when the codes only went to 255.

 

Some common ones are:

 

ALT+0188 = ¼

ALT+0189 = ½

ALT+0190 = ¾

ALT=0216 = Ø

 

and if you really want to get creative, (if your chosen font supports them):

 

ALT+8539 = 1/8

ALT+8540 = 3/8

ALT+8541 = 5/8

ALT+8542 = 7/8

 

Although this text box doesn't support them .....


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