CAD Forum discussion (EN) : Stencil letters and numbers

CAD Forum discussion (EN) : Stencil letters and numbers https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/ Fri, 08 May 2026 00:19:59 +0000 Fri, 15 May 2015 21:29:49 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Web Wiz Forums 12.04 360 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/RSS_post_feed.asp?TID=11170 <![CDATA[CAD Forum discussion (EN)]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_images/web_wiz_forums.png https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/ <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : The company may not exist any...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29772&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29772 Author: Kent Cooper
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Posted: 15.May.2015 at 21:29

The company may not exist any more (I can't find an active website, but see, for example, http://www.softscout.com/software/Engineering/Computer-Aided-Design-CAD/Letterease.html), but we used to have a specialty text program called LetterEase, from Cadware, Inc. It did all kinds of neat things with text in AutoCAD, including kerning. It had a bunch of fonts available (you bought the program plus however many fonts you wanted), including several Helveticas (like AutoCAD's Swiss family) -- regular, light, bold, condensed, etc. Each one came in several .SHX formats (outline only, high- and low-density filled) at a time when TrueType fonts couldn't be used, and even when TrueType came into the picture, the .SHX fonts generated and loaded much faster. And, each font came with a folder containing each character as a Block, which when Exploded yielded Polyline outlines (and parallel-Line infills for the filled ones). They had real curved edges where appropriate, and were very well-constructed, so they looked good at any size. If you can find a place to get LetterEase fonts, Exploding the outline-only Blocks would give very good results.]]> Fri, 15 May 2015 21:29:49 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29772&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29772 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : Certain letters might require...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29762&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29762 Author: John Connor
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:47

Certain letters might require a little editing.
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Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:46

Works like a champ. Thanks !!]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 17:46:28 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29761&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29761 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : Express tools may have an explode...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29760&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29760 Author: Robert_D
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:43

Express tools may have an explode text command.
If not, there are explode text lisp routines out there.
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Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:42

You might first trying using the Express Tools command for exploding text. TXTEXP]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 17:42:44 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29759&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29759 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : How can that text be converted...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29758&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29758 Author: micallen
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:28

How can that text be converted into Polylines? Seems I used to know how to do that... long ago.]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 17:28:44 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29758&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29758 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : A couple here:uploads/413522/stencil.zip...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29757&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29757 Author: Robert_D
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:03

A couple here:
uploads/413522/stencil.zip
]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 17:03:39 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29757&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29757 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : John Connor wrote:What font...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29756&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29756 Author: micallen
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:01

John Connor wrote:

What font style?

1st choice would be Swis 721 BdOul BT, but Arial would do.

]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 17:01:13 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29756&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29756 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : What font style? ]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29752&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29752 Author: John Connor
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 16:00

What font style?
]]> Thu, 14 May 2015 16:00:13 +0000 https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29752&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29752 <![CDATA[Stencil letters and numbers : I need to cut some numbers on...]]> https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=11170&PID=29751&title=stencil-letters-and-numbers#29751 Author: micallen
Subject: 11170
Posted: 14.May.2015 at 14:16

I need to cut some numbers on our plasma. Does anyone have stencil numbers and letters in a DWG or DXF format I could get?

Thanks,

Micallen

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