Autodesk 235B1-05A761-1301 User Guide - Page 754

Symbol and Annotation Plane context menu To quickly generate the geometry of the model outline on the Symbol and Annotation plane, you can right-click the plane in the part browser, and select Part Boundary. You can use the outline geometry as a guide for the symbol geometry. When you are done, turn off Part Boundary to remove the outline geometry from the plane because it does not change in size. TIP Use the Isolate Plane Contents, Hide Plane Contents, and End Object Isolation commands on the context menu of a plane to show or hide the geometry on the plane. 5 After you have drawn the symbol geometry and added the necessary constraints and dimensions, verify that when the part changes in size, the symbol changes in size in the same way: ■ In the part browser, expand Model Parameters, right-click a parameter, and click Edit. ■ In the Model Parameters dialog, modify the values of the parameters for the model, and click Close. ■ Examine the changes to the model and symbol in the drawing area. 6 If desired, add annotation to the schematic symbol. 7 If desired, specify the use of the schematic symbol instead of a model-generated view in 1-line and 2-line display representations in Top (plan) view: ■ In the part browser, click . ■ In the Options dialog, click Display Symbol In Plan View, and click OK. 8 In the part browser, click (Save Part Family). 9 Click to close the part browser. As an example, the following illustrations show how to create a parametric schematic symbol for an air diffuser. First, to align the edges of the symbol with the edges of the diffuser, point references are created on the Symbol and Annotation plane using 2 of the corner points on the diffuser. Then, for better viewing, 736 | Chapter 14 Customizing Catalog-Based Content