Stencil letters and numbers
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Topic: Stencil letters and numbers
Posted By: micallen
Subject: Stencil letters and numbers
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 14:16
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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 ------------- __________________ Micallen |
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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 16:00
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What font style? ------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: micallen
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:01
1st choice would be Swis 721 BdOul BT, but Arial would do. ------------- __________________ Micallen |
John Connor wrote:Posted By: Robert_D
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:03
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A couple here: uploads/413522/stencil.zip" rel="nofollow - uploads/413522/stencil.zip |
Posted By: micallen
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:28
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How can that text be converted into Polylines? Seems I used to know how to do that... long ago. ------------- __________________ Micallen |
Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:42
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You might first trying using the Express Tools command for exploding text. TXTEXP
------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: Robert_D
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:43
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Express tools may have an explode text command. If not, there are explode text lisp routines out there. |
Posted By: micallen
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:46
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Works like a champ. Thanks !! ------------- __________________ Micallen |
Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 14.May.2015 at 17:47
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Certain letters might require a little editing. ------------- "Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance." <<AutoCAD 2015>> |
Posted By: Kent Cooper
Date 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" rel="nofollow - 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. |