Creates a surface texture symbol and attaches it to an object in the drawing area.
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Summary
You can specify surface texture requirements by selecting from drop-down lists. You can also save fully configured surface texture symbols to the symbol library and reuse them directly off the ribbon.
List of Prompts
The following prompts are displayed.
- Select object to attach
- Attaches the symbol to an object. To place the symbol without attaching it to anything, click the position you want to place the arrowhead of the leader. If you want to place the symbol without a leader, click the position you want to place the symbol.
- Start point
- Specifies the position of the leader arrow. If you attach the symbol to an arc, circle, ellipse or spline, AutoCAD Mechanical toolset automatically determines the start point and does not display this prompt.
- Next point
- Specifies the location of next vertex of the leader.
Note:
- If you attach the symbol to an arc, circle, ellipse or spline AutoCAD Mechanical toolset forces the leader to be perpendicular to the attached object. To override this restriction, press the Toggle Symbol Leader Orthogonal Mode key (SHIFT + F, by default) as you move the cursor.
- If you attach the symbol to a line, AutoCAD Mechanical toolset does not enforce this restriction. To make the leader segment perpendicular to the attached line, move the cursor so that the leader is approximately perpendicular, and track along the alignment path that is displayed.
- Symbol
- Places the symbol at the most recently clicked location.
- Surface
- Adds an additional arrowhead, leader and reference line to the symbol, to enable you to point to a surface instead of an edge.
Note: Drafting standards that do not support surface indication leaders do not display the Surface option.
- Start point - Specifies the arrowhead position of the surface indication leader.
- Next point - Specifies the location of the next vertex of the surface indication leader.
- Symbol - Specifies the location of the symbol.
- Edge - Removes the additional arrowhead, leader and reference line to enable you to point to an edge instead of a surface.
- Library
- Specifies that the symbol settings are obtained from the symbol library.
- Symbol name - Specifies the name of the pre-configured symbol to get from the symbol library.
- ? - Lists the names of the pre-configured symbols you can select.