Configuring the Creo View Adapter for NX > Advanced NX Adapter Configurations > Supporting Custom Symbols, Weld, and Security Marking
  
Supporting Custom Symbols, Weld, and Security Marking
User defined symbols are drafting entities that can be used as an annotations and are converted from NX. To publish custom symbols from NX, select Planar Annotations on the Basic tab. In addition, according the PMI type to convert, select the following on the Parameters > Miscellaneous tab:
Symbols—Converted from NX as Symbol Annotation objects.
Weld—Converted from NX as symbols.
Security Marking—Converted from NX as notes in the Model Annotations tab in the Creo View upper data panel.
Custom symbols