Conver Text to autocad drawing

[ellennguyen]

I'm trying to created a drawing of words, can I type them as a text and conver to autocad drawing? I'm using autocad 2010, is there any command to do so?

Thanks

[ReMark]

Not that I am aware of.

Were you attempting to create a custom font?

[MSasu]

You a looking to create an AutoCAD drawing with a big bunch of text (general notes or something similar)? You can either embed an MSWord document inside your drawing (check INSERTOBJ command) or use Copy-Paste to transfer the text from the editor of your choice in MTEXT command's editor.

[ellennguyen]

Yes, I'm trying to create some words in autocad then export them to waterjet/CNC machine for cutting.

Somewhere mention about TXTEXP command. Do you aware of this and how to use it?

Thanks

[ellennguyen]

You a looking to create an AutoCAD drawing with a big bunch of text (general notes or something similar)? You can either embed an MSWord document inside your drawing (check INSERTOBJ command) or use Copy-Paste to transfer the text from the editor of your choice in MTEXT command's editor.

That should do it. I will try. Thanks MSasu

[MSasu]

So, are you going to create the contour of some letters that will go to a CNC equipment? You are correct, the TXTEXP command will convert text entities to polylines, although those shapes require some cleaning work after processing. This command is part of Express extension that is available only on full AutoCAD.

[ellennguyen]

Yes, that's my intension. I hope I could make it works

Thanks for your help.

[SLW210]

See if THIS post is of some help. See post #19

[Manila Wolf]

See if THIS post is of some help. See post #19

I read this thread with interest. I visited this link and tried the code.
On the fonts that I tried it on, I can confirm that it does indeed give far better results than express tools TXTEXP.

SLW210 - Thanks for the link.

Credit to SEANT for posting an excellent code.

[JD Mather]

In my experience the waterjet equipment should include software that does a much better job with text fonts.