You can
extract surface finish symbols from drawings and designate additional
information.
To extract
surface finish symbols:
-
In a drawing, click
(Document ribbon).
-
In the graphics area, box-select a surface finish symbol.

A balloon appears next to the extracted annotation and
the image appears at the top of the Characteristic tab in the Properties/Preferences PropertyManager. The software attempts to
fill the correct values in the Characteristic tab.
- Optional:
(PDF files only.) If the
software
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:
-
At the top of the Characteristic tab, box-select a value.

-
Click
one of the following based on the value you box-selected:
- Perform OCR of
selected region
.
- Crop image to
selected region

- Recapture currently
selected characteristic

The
software
reinterprets the value based on what is in the green
rectangle.
- Optional:
In the Properties/Preferences PropertyManager, under General, Inspection, Ballooning, and
Custom, enter values for the remaining
data in the annotation.