stencil fonts for autocad?

Jul 04, 2007 2 Replies

Hi All, Ive been asked by my boss to do some caser cutting of nameplates for things around our shop, do i *really* need to design every one of those letters? Surely there is a stencil font out there somewhere for autocad, hopefully one that doesnt need me to pay for it before i can see if its any good or not.....



As an alternative, any way of exploding lettering? I read something just a few minutes ago that sounded pretty convoluted; write some text in MS Word, but as word art, not as text, copy to clipboard, paste in autocad as paste special>autocad entities, convert to polyline, smooth as needed. This sounds like a fair bit of work for some probably quite ordinary results....



any ideas at all?



Thanks, Shaun


See if any of these will do ya:

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To convert TTF lettering to polylines, use the Express Tools "Explode text" tool, trim the resulting polylines as needed, and then use either PEDIT or BOUNDARY to create a single polyline per letter.

-Bill

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Shaun Van Poecke wrote:

You can get the Truetype font and use this program:

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Hi All,

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