Re: Casting Letters & Numbers

Jul 23, 2003 6 Replies
T

Deb,



Thanks for the reply. I was hoping that the text could be added with an arc profile. the text extrude is square or tapered. I didn't want to manually make each letter. Is there a text that give single stroke lines? For now I'm using the text as you recommended and adding a note to compensate.



Thanks, Tom




> "Tom Chasteen" wrote...
> > I need to include some letters and numbers in a casting. They are raised
> > about .04" . What is the best way to do this.
>
> Tom,
>
> Start a sketch on the appropriate face,
> 'Tools'
> 'Sketch Entity'
> 'Text'
>
> Tweak to your liking and extrude to a height of .04". Our casting supplier
> doesn't like me to send the file with the text added, but I put it on anyway
> for our use - fixture design, automation, etc. and send them a

configuration


without the text.
>
> Deb
>
>
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Tom, I've been looking for a single stroke fonts for a long time now without any success. Did you find such fonts? Dan.

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Dan,

No I didn't. I guess that I'll have to develop it myself.

Tom

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M

Would these fonts be sort of what you are looking for?

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Mike Wilson

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Mike, Thanks, this is close to what I'm looking for but... There are couple of characters that have irrelevant lines (1,2,3,C,S,A,M etc). I need these characters without these "closing lines". Did you create the fonts by your own? Did you buy it or downloaded it? Did you convert it from a standard font? Dan.

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First, I couldn't install the fonts on my Win2K machine, but I could on XP (strange) Then, examining the fonts with an editor, I discovered that many characters have a "closing line" as mastercam noticed. I deleted some closing lines, and when I saved the font, I got a warning saying that "some glyphs have open contour" with 2 options:

1) "export only closed contours" by default... 2) "ignore the warning and save all contours". I choosed this one, but after re-loading the font, it had the damn closing lines again... So I guess line fonts are not leagal in TTF... (I'm not (yet) a font specialist...) As said earlier, have a look at
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which lets you sweep along multiple sketch segments, including text, which enables to soften extruded text in any font as in
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M

I found them a while back on the net somewhere. They were sample fonts someone had available for download. I don't remember the site.

Mike

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