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tcrooks
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Mechanical Drawing Symbols

07/10/2008 12:33 PM

Can anyone assist me with locating and electronic set of mechanical drawing symbols (holes, anlges, radius, drill/tap, bolt-circles, etc) that can be copied and pasted in MicroSoft applications (PowerPoint, Word, Excel, etc).
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07/10/2008 2:14 PM

Look up (Google) GD&T, tolerancing, dimensioning, drafting standard, mechanical symbols.....

.....hang on. Lets see what happens when I do it......

Results 1 - 10 of about 13,800 for gd&t symbols. (0.27 seconds) ......

....or.......

Results 1 - 10 of about 966,000 for drafting symbols. (0.23 seconds) ....

....there is a start anyways.

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07/11/2008 7:34 AM

Any mechanical cad software should have it. Some are free downloads.

Question is why are you using MS software in a design application?

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07/11/2008 1:24 PM

Lemme toss in a SWAG here - for creating PowerPoint slides and Word documents about drawings done in AutoCad or similar that don't have good word processing capability? Could happen...

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07/11/2008 2:28 PM

Then it would be either a cut and paste thing or a direct file transfer to Excel, PP or Word from cad. Adding text in the event that the cad program is limited should pose no problems if transferred into MS software. The cad programs I've used all have text albeit limited font styles.

Photopaint or Photoshop will also accept various drafting symbols. Just store them in the appropriate file.

If all else fails then scanning from a technical manual in OCR trace should give you the symbols. Helluva long process though.

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07/11/2008 3:42 PM

And what if the OP hadn't thought of any of these things? Also, why did the first couple of replies have sources? Apparently this isn't the first guy on the surface to need such stuff...hmmm... Well, none of my affair I suppose.

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07/11/2008 5:49 PM

did the first couple of replies have sources?..........I couldn't find any engineering or electrical symbol font downloads in those sources.

Had a very similar problem some years back while drawing the plans for an old English theodolite. Could not find a font for Whitworth Thread so made one up in Photoshop.

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07/11/2008 6:49 PM

Thanks folks -- Like drinking from a firehose. I down-loaded several free softwares and found much (had to go through tutorials, etc) really was just lookinig for a quick (stealable) cheat sheet. Thanks again!
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07/11/2008 7:05 PM

Did you try Insert, Symbol, Font , GD&T?

Also AutoCAD symbols has hundreds of symbols to copy/paste.

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07/11/2008 7:18 PM

I had to buy the software and as luck would have it the one symbol I needed was missing.

But yes...after purchasing the software all fonts and symbols were recognized by MS Word and I pasted them into a separate font file.

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