Surface Finish Symbol Settings

Use the Surface Finish Symbol screen of the Toolbox - Settings dialog box to configure general and text settings for surface finish symbols you insert into drawings.

You can configure other surface finish symbol characteristics using the Toolbox - Surface Finish Symbols dialog box.

To display surface finish symbol settings, do one of the following:

  • Click Mechanical Toolbox > Settings. In the Toolbox - Settings dialog box, in the left pane, click Annotations, and in the right pane, expand Surface Finish Symbol.
  • Click Mechanical Toolbox > Symbols > Surface Finish Symbols or Surface Finish Symbols (Mechanical Toolbox toolbar). In the Toolbox - Surface Finish Symbols dialog box, click Settings.

General

Leader display When you enable Leader, indicates whether the leader will be Straight or Bent.
Layer preferences Lets you modify the default layer, linecolor, linestyle, and lineweight settings for the surface finish symbol.
Leader Includes a leader on the surface finish symbol.

Text

Style Sets the text style used in the surface finish symbol.
Size Sets the size of the text and the size of the symbol.