Symbol Editor - Creating Symbol Templates

The Symbol Editor allows you to create symbol templates in AutoCAD as AutoCAD blocks. A block, and an insert of the block, are created. (Blocks may, of course, be created using standard AutoCAD commands, but the AutoDRAFT Symbol Editor provides a method which is optimized for the creation of blocks to be used as symbol templates in Draft.)

The procedure for creating a symbol template is:

1. Create the symbol graphics using lines, points, circles, arcs and text.

2. Create an AutoCAD attribute called PDMS_NAME for the symbol name.

3. Create a block and an insert of the block.