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Surface Texture Symbol Favorites

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The Ribbon panel Tools in Drawing environment contains the Favorites button that opens the Dialog. The program also adds an instance of that button to the Ribbon panel Symbols on the Inventor Ribbon Annotate in Drawing environment.

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Click the "+" Button to select an existing Surface Texture Symbol in the active drawing. The settings of the symbol are added to the list of favorites as a new list item. If the selected Symbol contains text, the program will prompt you whether you want to add the text from the selected Symbol to the favorite definition. Click within the displayname cell of the new item to type in a displayname for the favorite.

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Deletes the selected item from the list of favorites.

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Starts a selection loop and applies the settings of the selected favorite to all selected Surface Texture Symbols. You can stop the selection loop by pressing the ESC key on the keyboard. If the Symbol was defined including the texts of the original Symbol, the selection function will overwrite the texts in the selected Symbols. If the favorite was defined without texts, the selection will only apply the format of the Symbol but will keep the texts of the selected target Symbols.

The list of favorites is automatically saved when you close the Dialog.