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Customize symbols using custom fonts

Customize symbols using custom fonts

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Customize symbols using custom fonts

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- In this video, I wanna talk about, creating custom, electrical symbols that incorporate nested 2D generic annotation symbols within them. Now often when you create electrical symbols, the planned symbol that's used is actually an abstracted version. It's not an accurate rendition of what it would really look like. For example, if we look over here at these light switches, we use the letter "S" to indicate that it's a switch rather than actually drawing something that looks really like a light switch or this card reader. The same thing. It's got this box with the letters "CR" in it. It's not an accurate rendition of what a card reader would actually look like. Now that's what we do typically in the plan views and we also exaggerate the size of those elements to make them more legible. But when we look at them in elevations or sections we typically draw them at their correct size and scale like you can see here in the…

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