Standard ANSI symbols for form and positional tolerance, material condition, etc. may be obtained by using one of the special control characters or numbers.
In this article I will show you how to create bounding box in CATIA V5. This feature is very useful especially in the case if it is a part that has a complex shape. A bounding box is the physical shape (that you run into or that other physical shapes encounter) for a given object. Ok i found the font file that contains the symbols that you are looking for it is in intela resources fonts PostScript or TrueType the file name starts with SymbC and whatever extension for truetype of postscript, the diameter symbol is 180 (B4 in hex). CATIA either uses a substitution for the symbol when it encounters a 'tag. GD&T Symbols Reference Guide from Sigmetrix. In geometric dimensioning and tolerancing (GD&T), a unique set of GD&T symbols are used to define the relationships between part features and measurement references. Designers and engineers utilize this international language on their drawings to accurately describe part features on the basis of size.
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Control Character | Symbol |
M | Maximum material condition |
S | Regardless of feature size |
P | Projected tolerance zone |
O | Diameter (where O is a capital letter). |
&1 | Straightness |
&2 | Flatness |
&3 | Circularity |
&4 | Cylindricity |
&5 | Profile of Line |
&6 | Profile of Surface |
&7 | Angularity |
&8 | Perpendicularity |
&9 | Parallelism |
&10 | True position |
&11 | Concentricity |
&12 | Symmetry |
&13 | Circular runout |
&14 | Rectangularity |
&15 | Total runout |
( | A left parenthesis 2 times the current character size. For reference dimensions, etc. |
) | A right parenthesis 2 times the current character size. For reference dimensions, etc. |
+ | A perpendicular divider with the size the same as the frame size of the form and positional tolerance symbol. |
<#aN> | Quantity (where N is a number) |
<#b> | Counterbore/Spotface |
<#c> | Countersink |
<#d> | Depth |
<#e> | Conical taper |
<#f> | Square |
<#g> | Slope |
<O> | Diameter (where O is a capital letter) |
S<O> | Spherical diameter (where O is a capital letter) |
This example demonstrates the use of control characters to create drafting and dimensioning symbols.
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NOTE/-2.2, 1.5,$
'<M> <+> <P> <+> <N>',$
'<O> <+> <S>'
NOTE/-2.2, .8,$
'<&1> <+> <&2> <+> <N>',$
'< &3 > < + > < &4 >'
NOTE/-2.2, .1,$
'<&5> <+> <&6> <+> <N>',$
'<&7> <+> <&8>'
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NOTE/-2.2, -.6,$
'<&9> <+> <&10> <+> <N>',$
'<&11> <+> <&12>'
NOTE/-2.2,-1.3,$
'<&13> <+> <&14> <+> <N>',$
'<(> <+> <)>'
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Drafting Symbols and Characters Created by Control Characters