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SmartSketch Drawing Editor Help

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Smart 3D Version
13.1
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11

You can edit a symbol by opening the .sym file directly. You can also edit a symbol that you drag  from the Browser / Symbol Explorer to place into a drawing. After you drag the symbol, you can manipulate it by actions such as mirroring, rotating, and sizing.

To edit a symbol, you should select it and click Open on the shortcut menu.

SHARED Tip To display the shortcut menu, highlight a symbol with the pointer and right-click.

You can also edit the properties and parameters of some symbols to change the symbols.

When you drag these special symbols into a document, the Attribute Viewer automatically displays the properties and parameters. The properties are in plain text. The parameters are identified with bold text. You cannot edit the names of the parameters. The Attribute Viewer is not available in all software installations.

SHARED Tip If the Browser / Symbol Explorer is closed, you can also access the properties and parameters of a symbol by selecting it and clicking Browser / Symbol Explorer.

Editing Embedded or Linked Symbols

If the symbol is linked, you can open the symbol and edit it. The symbol that you placed on the drawing sheet updates automatically. Those same changes are saved in the .sym document on the hard drive.

Embedding the symbol means that a copy of the symbol was placed in the document. If you edit one instance of the embedded symbol in a document, all copies of that symbol within the current document reflect those changes.

  • You can also select multiple symbols and convert them simultaneously; however, if the select set contains anything other than a symbol, Convert is not available.

  • You must place the symbol in a document at the default scale (1:1) if you want to use Convert.

If you convert the symbol into an element group, you cannot turn the group back into a symbol.

Symbol Labels

To create a label, you can double-click the symbol. A blinking pointer appears below, above, or in the middle of the symbol so that you can start typing the text that you want.

Changing Parameters

You can change the parameters of a symbol with the Parameters tab on the Properties dialog box. You can change the value of the parameter, but you cannot change the name of the parameter.

See Also

Mechanism Modeling
Edit a Symbol
Create Symbol Command