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    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?

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Points: 7175 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14.May.2015 at 16:00
What font style?
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Originally posted by John Connor John Connor wrote:

What font style?

1st choice would be Swis 721 BdOul BT, but Arial would do.
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Points: 207 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:03
A couple here:
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How can that text be converted into Polylines?  Seems I used to know how to do that... long ago.
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Points: 7175 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:42
You might first trying using the Express Tools command for exploding text.  TXTEXP
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Express tools may have an explode text command.
If not, there are explode text lisp routines out there.
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Works like a champ.  Thanks !!
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Certain letters might require a little editing.
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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.
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