Designing a symbol

The Symbol Editor contains tools to create or edit symbols. A symbol is composed of one or more parts. A symbol can be a single design or a compilation of overlapping designs and are stored in files with a .sym extension. Symbol files can be used in one or more RSTs.

  1. Understanding the symbol working area
  2. Creating a symbol
  3. Creating a multi-part symbol
  4. Selecting a symbol from the symbol file
  5. Setting symbol representation
  6. Editing the symbol RST
  7. About the symbol file Save As window
Parent topic: Spatial analysis
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