Converting text
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Topic: Converting text
Posted By: Datumarch
Subject: Converting text
Date Posted: 08.Sep.2017 at 16:43
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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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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 08.Sep.2017 at 16:56
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Then aren't you talking about an image file (.jpg or .png)? ------------- "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: Datumarch
Date Posted: 08.Sep.2017 at 17:07
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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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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 09.Sep.2017 at 14:08
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Trace the damn thing then turn it into a block. Done. ------------- "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: scj.schulz
Date 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 Regards Jochen www.ant-ares.de |
Posted By: Kent Cooper
Date Posted: 11.Sep.2017 at 20:40
| 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. |
Posted By: Nate143
Date Posted: 12.Sep.2017 at 11:38
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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:
Otherwise, use the trace option Regards Nate
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Posted By: philippe JOSEPH
Date Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 14:32
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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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Posted By: Nate143
Date Posted: 13.Sep.2017 at 15:41
Only a pleasure  ------------- Regards Nate... |