Text Symbol Sets

There is no undo facility when you edit colour sets, hatch sets, line sets, or symbol sets. If you want to be able to undo any future changes or deletions, you should first use the Save As button to save your current settings as a form set which can be re-loaded.

You can create text sets for colours, hatches, lines and symbols. Descriptions and hatches, for example, can be assigned to lithology codes. These text codes must be present in one of the fields of the file with which you are working. You can use Wildcards to match multiple codes.

  1. On the Home tab, in the Symbology group: Select Symbol Sets | Text Symbol Set to create or modify a symbol set based on text values.

    2. You can also open the Text Symbol Sets form by right-clicking (F4) in the Symbol Set response in a form or dialog (when the Symbol field you have selected is a character field).

  1. Enter or select the text codes you want to use. You can either use the Assign to Text Sets tool to extract text codes automatically or you can enter them manually. You can then select and group these codes into the combinations you require.
  2. Either use the automatically generated labels or edit them further to suit your requirements. The text that appears in the Label column can be used in the legend frame of a plot.
  3. Allocate a symbol to each text code by double-clicking (F3) or use an existing palette. Use the buttons on the local toolbar to Manage the rows in the list.
  1. Click Save As to save your changes as a new form set. Click Save and Close to save the current form set and close the Edit Symbol Set form. 

Text Symbol Grid

Value

Double-click (or click on the Select icon) to select the text codes you want to use. Remember that you can use Assign to Text Sets to find all of the text codes in the nominated field. You can then select and group those codes into the combinations you require. Use the pipe symbol "|" to separate text codes in the same row of the text column.

Symbol

Double-click (F3) to select the symbol that will be used to represent each value or the lower and upper bounds of each range. For more information, see: Symbol Palette

On the right-click menu, you can:

  • Select Change Selected Symbols or Change All Symbols to modify the symbols for ALL rows or for SELECTED rows only.

Label

If you use Assign, labels are automatically generated, based upon the entries in the Text column. These default labels can be changed if necessary. In the Plot Editor, these labels can be loaded into the Description column of a Legend frame.

Default

Double-click to select a default symbol that will be used when you insert or add new rows. To add a new row, click on the last row in the set and press the Enter key. The default symbol is applied.

Forms

Click the Forms button to select and open a saved form set, or if a form set has been loaded, save the current form set.

New

Click the New button to clear all of the response boxes in the form.

Assign

Click the Assign button to automatically extract all the text codes from a field in the file. You can select and group the text codes, either manually or by using Auto group. See: Assign to Text Sets

Save As

Click Save As to save your changes as a new form set. See: Save As

Save and Close

Click Save and Close to save your changes as the default form set and close the form.

Cancel

Click the Cancel button to close the form without saving your changes. Note that the Edit form will always show the last changes that were made. To revert back to where you were before changes were made, you will need to re-load a saved form set. If your original settings were not saved as a form set, they cannot be recovered.