REMOVE

Purpose:

To remove a symbol from the list of available fonts. (It is to be noted that this is not the same as removing a symbol from a drawing: this latter action is undertaken via Edit, then Delete, then Symbol.)

Instructions:

1. The user is presented with a simple dialog box containing the various symbols that are currently available. By selecting the font number and horizontally scrolling, the user can select with the cursor and the left-hand mouse button the symbol that is to be deleted. The system draws a simple rectangular box around the selected symbol.

2. If the user then clicks OK in this dialog box, the system asks him to confirm that he really wishes to delete the selected symbol.

   This Remove function should be used with care. When a symbol is used within a drawing, only the reference to the symbol font, together with any associated scaling, , information is held within the electronic file version of the drawing, not a full copy of the symbol itself. Only when a drawing is being displayed, or plotted/printed in 'hard copy' form, is a full copy of the symbol temporarily fetched from the symbol file. Thus deleting a symbol from the symbol file may result in previously complied drawings being inadvertently effected

Options:

There are no other options within this function.

Result:

The Symbol Font file is updated to meet the user’s current requirements.