{"id":1156,"date":"2016-03-23T06:56:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T13:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/?p=1156"},"modified":"2016-06-13T09:37:12","modified_gmt":"2016-06-13T16:37:12","slug":"quick-tip-special-symbols-drawings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/quick-tip-special-symbols-drawings\/","title":{"rendered":"QUICK TIP: Special Symbols in Drawings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week when I was preparing for my webinar\u00a0(and looking for cool tips and tricks), the following forum post was sent to me:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/post-your-tips-and-tutorials\/drawing-special-symbols\/td-p\/5711899\" target=\"_self\">https:\/\/forums.autodesk.com\/t5\/post-your-tips-and-tutorials\/drawing-special-symbols\/td-p\/5711899<\/a><br \/>\nIn it, Kevin describes a way to leverage Unicode text and what he refers to as \u201cAutoCAD-isms\u201d to add special symbols and characters to your Fusion 360 drawings and annotations. Currently, this is\u00a0more than\u00a065k\u00a0different characters ranging from alphabets, to <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_Unicode_characters#Miscellaneous_Technical\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\">technical symbols<\/a>, to mathematical operators, and way more.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The following video shows how I was able to leverage this ability in a drawing I was working on recently:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_padding\" style=\"padding: 56.25% 0 0 0; position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"wistia_responsive_wrapper\" style=\"height: 100%; left: 0; position: absolute; top: 0; width: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wistia_embed\" src=\"\/\/fast.wistia.net\/embed\/iframe\/vleal645ix?seo=false&amp;videoFoam=true\" name=\"wistia_embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Hope that helps!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-Aaron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this QUICK TIP, we\u2019ll show you how to access the 65k special characters\/symbols Unicode opens up for your Fusion 360 drawings and annotations. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":320,"featured_media":1162,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[52,49,40,55,43,46],"coauthors":[670],"class_list":["post-1156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fusion","tag-cam","tag-characters","tag-drawings","tag-quick-tip","tag-symbols","tag-unicode","dhig-theme--light"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>QUICK TIP: Special Symbols in Drawings - Fusion Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Looking for a way to add special symbols &amp; characters to your Fusion 360 drawings? 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