Creating a Surface Texture Majority Symbol

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  Creating a Surface Texture Majority Symbol
  April 2, 2008, 06:42 PM Andrew de Leon

  For those using an ISO based standard, either the out of the box version or you own company tweaked version, a number of symbols have the option to place a “majority” symbol in addition to their geometry and leader based variations.

  

  The Surface Texture symbol is one of these symbols; however, if you place the symbol following the default command prompts, the majority symbol option is not available within the dialog box. So how do you access the option?

  It’s pretty straight forward once you know… just don’t select any geometry and most importantly, don’t use a leader while creating the symbol… When you see the “Next Point <Symbol>:” prompt, instead of picking a point and creating a leader, press Enter. This creates the symbol without a leader and makes the majority symbol option available for selection within the dialog box.

  

  Once a majority symbol is placed, the symbol continuously monitors the drawing space it’s placed in. This monitoring allows the symbol to be placed before or after your specific surface texture symbols. If placed before, any symbols placed after will be added between the brackets automatically. If placed after your specific symbols, all existing symbols are immediately added and the monitoring continues just in case you forgot one…

  Tips

  1)   The level of detail of the symbols between the brackets is controlled by the Surface Texture standard element. There are two options; Simplified and Full list. I’ll let you decide which one best fits your requirements.

  2)   The majority symbol is title border specific. This means that if you use multiple title borders (placed using AMTITLE) within model space, the majority symbol will only monitor the drawing space within the title border it’s placed. Any surface texture symbols placed outside the title border or within another will not be added.

   

  - Andrew

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