Packaging Symbols

The Parts panel's Symbols folder has the marks printed on packaging: handling marks, recycling marks and the marks a printer or converter works to. Drag one onto a drawing as any other part.

Each symbol:

is sized by one labelled variable, SYMH: its height (an arrow's length, a crop mark's length). Set it in the Parts panel before dropping (see the part's own values), or change it in the part's PART line afterwards: everything in the symbol scales with it;
is centred on its origin, with a part marker there, so it is dropped centred where it is dropped (a crop mark on the trim's corner);
is drawn on a Graphics layer of its own: printed (in black), not cut, creased or plotted, and left out of die making. The first symbol dropped on a drawing adds the layer to it (numbered 1000, or the next number free), and the others go on it too. Rename it or change its colour in the Layers panel as you like: the symbols keep to the layer of that name;
is filled where it is solid, with FILL elements, so it prints as it should in PDF, EPS, Illustrator and SVG files.

They are clean, simple drawings in the style of the standard marks, not copies of any artwork. Check what your market and your customer require (sizes, colours, where each goes) before printing them.

Handling marks

In Symbols/Handling, in the style of the ISO 780 pictograms for transport packages:

Symbol	Means
Fragile	Fragile, handle with care: a goblet with a crack.
This way up	Keep upright: two arrows over a bar, pointing to the top.
Keep dry	Keep away from rain: an umbrella.
Keep away from heat	Keep away from heat and sunlight: the sun over a package.
Do not stack	Nothing to be stacked on it.
Centre of gravity	Where the centre of gravity is: drop it there.
Do not use hand hooks	A crossed-out hook.
Sling here	Where slings go: a chain.
Clamp here, Do not clamp	The sides to clamp, or not to clamp.
Temperature limits	A thermometer between two limits, written beside it: `TMAX` and `TMIN`, in degrees Celsius.

ISO 780 asks for handling marks 100, 150 or 200 mm high on transport packages: they start at 50.

Recycling marks

In Symbols/Recycling:

Symbol	Means
Recycling loop	The recycling symbol (the Möbius loop): three chasing arrows. Public domain.
Resin code 1 PET … Resin code 7 OTHER	The plastic resin identification codes: 1 PET, 2 HDPE, 3 PVC, 4 LDPE, 5 PP, 6 PS and 7 OTHER, the number in a triangle of arrows and the abbreviation under it.
Material code	Any other material's code, as EU Decision 97/129/EC numbers them (20 to 22 PAP for paper and board, 40 FE for steel, 41 ALU for aluminium, 70 to 72 GL for glass …): set its `CODE` and `ABBR`.

Trademarked and certification marks (FSC, PEFC, the Green Dot, Tidyman, the CE mark, a recycling scheme's own logo …) are not included: use the artwork their owners supply, under their rules.

Other marks

In Symbols/Marks:

Symbol	Means
Estimated sign	℮: the quantity was filled by the average system. At least 3 mm high (it starts at 4).
Period after opening	An open jar with how many months a product keeps once opened: set `MONTHS` (12 shows 12M).
Registration mark	A target (two circles and a cross) for lining up printing and cutting.
Crop marks	Trim marks for a corner: two lines `SYMH` long, `GAP` clear of the trim. Drop it on the trim's corner; it marks the bottom left corner, so turn it for the others.
Grain direction, Flute direction	A two-headed arrow marked GRAIN or FLUTE, `SYMH` long. Turn it to the board's grain or flutes (see Materials).
Print side	An arrow marked PRINT SIDE: this side out.

Your own symbols

A symbol is a drawing like any other part. To add one of your own, draw it on a layer called Graphics (so it is added to the drawings it is dropped on, and its elements stay on it), size it on a variable such as SYMH, and save it with File › Save to Library… into the Parts library's Symbols folder (or a folder of your own). See Parts.