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Datumarch 
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 Topic: Converting text
Posted: 08.Sep.2017 at 16:43 |
I have a client logo which is a block, that includes a specific text style. When moving computers the text style changes to a default. What I would like to do is just turn the text into some sort of object so that it has no text properties and will not change from computer to computer. Any ideas?? -- Thanks Eric
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John Connor
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Posted: 08.Sep.2017 at 16:56 |
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Then aren't you talking about an image file (.jpg or .png)?
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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>>
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Datumarch
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Posted: 08.Sep.2017 at 17:07 |
No, unfortunately the logo was build in cad. So it has mtext in the block of the logo. Now when we use it between computers and new vs old software, it changes the text style. I would just like the logo to all be one, non editable logo with no ability to edit the text or have it automatically change between computers. -- Thanks
Eric
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John Connor
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Posted: 09.Sep.2017 at 14:08 |
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Trace the damn thing then turn it into a block. Done.
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scj.schulz
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Posted: 09.Sep.2017 at 15:56 |
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You can use a DXB-Plotter for this.
Perhaps you first have to configure this DXB-Plotter using the PLOTTERMANAGER-command.
Plot the logo into a file, use the DXBIN-command to insert the created DXB-file in a new drawing and so all letters and drawing entities are converted into single lines.
Hope this helps
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Jochen
www.ant-ares.de
Edited by scj.schulz - 09.Sep.2017 at 15:58
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Kent Cooper
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Posted: 11.Sep.2017 at 20:40 |
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In your Printer/Plotter Name: list in the Plot dialog box, there should be some choices that will make a PDF or PNG or JPG. Isolate the part of their logo Block that you want to do this with, "plot" it by itself to one of those kinds of files, and in BEDIT or REFEDIT, erase the original from the Block and use IMAGEATTACH to bring in the PDF/PNG/JPG version.
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Nate143
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Posted: 12.Sep.2017 at 11:38 |
From the Autodesk Website
The following method only works with text that uses SHX fonts. If your text objects use True Type fonts (TTF), you must first assign a comparable SHX font to the text objects you wish to explode. Then:- Issue the command WMFOUT.
- Specify a file name and location for the WMF file and click Save.
- Select the text objects you wish to explode and press ENTER.
- Issue the command WMFIN.
- Choose the WMF file created in steps 1-3 and click Open.
- Specify an insertion point.
- Specify an insertion scale. Typically, a scale factor of 2 is required to get the object to be the same size as the original.
- Specify rotation (usually 0).
- The inserted object is a block, so EXPLODE it.
- The text is now reduced to polylines.
Otherwise, use the trace option
Regards Nate
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philippe JOSEPH
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Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 14:32 |
Hello Nate143, your method is too good to be true and it works so goooooooooooood ! I do have to convert texts from AutoCAD to Solidworks or Pro Engineer and when I want to text be kept on theses softwares I "write" 3D text of my own, this will be too good, although I have already created from blank letters, capital letters, numbers and various other text in 3D solids.  |
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Nate143
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Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 15:41 |
Only a pleasure 
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Regards
Nate...
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