plate and centreline symbols

[qball]

how do i make these symbols?

i know centreline has a symbol in the symbol library but it's not the same font as our standard font.

we've got a few old jobs and details that have the plate and centreline symbols in the proper text, but if i text edit them, they show up as a square or question mark. these were created years ago by employees that are no longer here and by older versions of autocad. any help is appreciated.

[ReMark]

You could always substitute a block for each symbol.

 

What is your standard font?

 

What font were the symbols created with?

[Guest Alan Cullen]

Sounds like you are involved in civil work. Forget about how to be clever. Just type "centreline" and be done with it. You could not have more than a dozen roads.

[SLW210]

Plate is \U+214A Centerline is \U+2104

 

Available in theseTrue Type (TTF) and SHX Fonts...

• Simplex
  
• RomanS
  
• Isocp
  
• Isocp2
  
• Isocp3
  
• Isoct
  
• Isoct2
  
• Isoct3
  
• Isocpeur (TTF only)
  
• Isocpeur italic (TTF only)
  
• Isocteur (TTF only)
  
• Isocteur italic (TTF only)

[halfcracked]

They were also built in to some of the .SHX fonts. & could be added with %% codes. I'm not near my cheat sheets or I list them too.

[qball]

  ReMark said:

You could always substitute a block for each symbol.

 

What is your standard font?

 

What font were the symbols created with?

 

it's a bit goofy here. the current font we use is archquik (and archisel for titles). in years past the program fonts were changed so "romans" gave the appearance of archquik. so it was labelled romans but was archquik font.

looks like i'm kind of stuck.

[SLW210]

  qball said:

it's a bit goofy here. the current font we use is archquik (and archisel for titles). in years past the program fonts were changed so "romans" gave the appearance of archquik. so it was labelled romans but was archquik font.

looks like i'm kind of stuck.

 

What's the problem with using the original setup? You could switch to RomanS just for the symbols. Your other option is to use blocks, you could set them up with a button for each block to be inserted.

[halfcracked]

Iif you have AE1.shx font (or AE2 AE3) it looks a lot like archiquick & the following works:

 

%%250 = plate

%%249 = FL

%%248 %%D = centerline

%%128 or %%p = +-

%%127 = degree

%%C = diameter

[qball]

where did you get the "ae1.shx" font? i don't have it on acad 2007

[halfcracked]

It's (AE!.SHX) been floating around our office since R11 - used to be our office standard.

 

I've been poking around & can't seem to find reference to it anywhere current. I think it's a discontinued font from Autodesk.

 

I would post it here but I'm not sure of the legal status on it.

[qball]

I am resurfacing this old thread. If I could make one of these symbols from a block, can I add it to the shortcut menu Symbol in Mtext Editor?

[Bill W]

I will say this as nice as I can...

If I were paying the bill for your design out of my own pocket, I would want you to forget standards and proper font and just say "center line".

 

 

Oh well. I also needed to insert a "CL" symbol, so just used Annotation/Single Line Text and typed "C", then a separate "L". Then selected each and moved them

so they were superimposed and over the center line.

 

 

When you are retired like me and nobody is paying you, you can mess around like this, and the only thing that matters is if you are having fun, at least a little bit.