How to enter special characters
Saturday, June 18, 2005
While working in the drafting field for the past few years, I have always used special characters (symbols) in AutoCAD. The latest versions of the AutoCAD let you access these symbols in different ways, but I since I started my career using AutoCAD 12 (in MS DOS operation system), I still like to use the old way.
Below is a list of control sequences for some of the symbols that I use frequently:
Hope you find this useful.
Until next time,
Fernando Salgado
Below is a list of control sequences for some of the symbols that I use frequently:
TIP: the special character %%o or %%u act as toggles. For example, if you enter "this%%utoggles%%u the underscore", the word toggles will be underscored (toggles).
Hope you find this useful.
Until next time,
Fernando Salgado
1 Comments:
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Anonymous, 12/15/2005 5:55 PM
Anonymous, 12/15/2005 5:55 PM
I'm a surveyor as well and am considering migrating from 2004 to 2006. We use an ISO font regularly and our surveying comps package outputs the " ' " character to be substituted for the squared (²) character.
Autocad 2006 doesn't seem to recognise this. Have you encountered this problem and were you able to find a solution?
Much obliged . .
a d a m :)
Melbourne, Australia