Extracting Surface Finish Symbols

You can extract surface finish symbols from drawings and designate additional information.

1. In a drawing, click Surface Finish (Document ribbon).
2. In the graphics area, box-select a surface finish symbol.
   
   
   A balloon appears next to the extracted annotation, the image appears at the top of the Characteristic tab in the Properties/Preferences PropertyManager, and the OCR attempts to fill the correct values in the Characteristic tab.
3. Optional: If the OCR does not recognize all of the values in the annotation correctly, you can use the selective recapture tools to create the correct values or enter them manually:
   1. At the top of the Characteristic tab, box-select a value.
   2. Click Perform OCR of Selected Region .
      The OCR engine reinterprets the value based on what is in the green rectangle.
   3. In the Properties/Preferences PropertyManager, under General, Inspection, Ballooning, and Custom, enter values for the remaining data in the annotation.