How do you insert a custom symbol?

[barrykingwill]

How do you insert a custom symbol?

I must be missing the obvious, but I don't see any "Insert Custom Symbol" in the Sketch Menu, while in Drawing workspace.

FROM HELP
Inserting a standard or custom symbol
You can insert any standard symbol or block into a drawing. You can also create custom symbols and insert them.

To choose and insert a symbol
In a drawing workspace, select Insert Custom Symbol from the Sketch menu. The Choose Symbol to Insert dialog box appears.

Locate the appropriate symbol. Standard symbols are stored in the System repository.

 

[cclark440]

It is there. It is located at the bottom of the Sketch menu. But for that menu item to be available you have to activate sketch on sheet first.

 

[barrykingwill]

I see " Insert" on the Sketch menu, but there is not "Custom Symbol, under Insert.

I also see "Create Custom Symbol", but not "Insert Custom Symbol"

Just to show that I am not imagining things I have included a screen capture of my Sketch Menu in the binaries (how I wish one could attach files here)

 

[siggy]

This will apparently only work if you are in the "Sketch on Sheet" mode and not in the "Sketch in View" mode. I just tried it and here's what I had to do:

1. Open a 2D drawing
2. Right click somewhere on the sheet and select "Activate Sketch on Sheet"
3. Go to the Sketch -> Insert Custom Symbol (or do a Ctrl-I)

 

[schenman]

The "Insert Custom Symbol" works ONLY in the "2D Drawing session" and NOT the "3D Part session". You can create a custom symbol in "3D part session" though and then insert in the 2D drawing .

Schenman