What Is a Graphic Character?
Graphic symbols are visual symbols that use graphics as the main feature to convey certain information. It can guide people's actions, remind people to pay attention or give warnings, etc. Graphic symbols are intuitive, concise, easy to understand, and easy to remember. They facilitate the transmission of information and make it easy for people of all ages, cultural levels, and languages to accept and use. Therefore, they are widely used in social All fields involve various departments and industries.
Graphic symbol
- Graphic symbols are visual symbols that use graphics as the main feature to convey certain information. It can guide people's actions,
- With graphics as the main feature, the transmission of information does not rely on language symbols (a visual image that expresses a certain thing or concept with simplified and understandable features). [1]
- GB / T 10001.1-2012
- Graphic symbols can be divided into three categories according to their application fields:
- Graphical symbols for technical documentation refer to the specific use of technical product documentation to indicate objects and / or functions, or to indicate specific aspects of production, inspection, and installation
- Graphical symbols for valves, control elements and actuators
- Technical documents use graphic symbols to represent objects and / or functions mainly through graphic forms, or to indicate specific instructions for production, inspection and installation. The characteristics of their data are as follows:
- a) Its geometric shape is the most concise among the three types of graphic symbols, which is more abstract and conceptual;
- b) the graphics entity belongs to vector graphics in CAD format;
- d) The symbol size is not fixed, and there is no regular geometric appearance. Its size depends on the requirements of engineering drawings.