Text made of objects

[David D]

Well, I thank you all for your time but looks like another deadend. I need the geometry to be a single line type object instead of outline (A would be 3 lines, E would be 4 lines, O would be single circle, etc). Sure thought I was there. Hate that is was all for naught. Again, thanks all.

[ReMark]

It sounds like you are using a single line font then as opposed to an outline font like Arial. Yes?

[David D]

Well the actual font used makes no real difference to me, just the end result. I thought I was good when I used a .shx font and did txtexp but that makes the finished object as all lines, no curves. On letters like "S" there are so many small lines that this slows down the machine too much to be effective.

[ReMark]

Did you try using the REGION command on one of those letters?

[David D]

Just tried. Does not change all the small lines. Just joins them into polyline.

[ReMark]

Polyline Edit > Join?

[BIGAL]

Sounds like the problem is most fonts have a width say Arial a font like ISOCP has no width and is a single pen stroke so results are stick figures, I downloaded the font program but have 2013 so it wont work, when you look at result can you explode the character generated and re PE a half side then offset to create a c/l of the font you only need do this 52 times and keep forever. A "E" would be 4 lines not say 12 lines

Another suggestion if you use a small router will you get correct outside profile then route out centre using a hatch ?

[SEANT]

A couple of quick comments on Text To Geometry routine:

The version at Autodesk Exchange is compatible with 2012 – 2013.

For a 2007 – 2011, the version at theSwamp and http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showth...l=1#post334196
Should work.

The routine works only with True Type fonts. TTFs are fill based, so they do not support Single Stroke.

When I get a chance I’ll see if I can provide some Single Stroke capability with the ISOCP family of fonts. If that works out I’ll try to get that into an update for the Exchange.

[BIGAL]

Thanks Seant will download correct version, back to David D did you try offsetting the fonts to create a single pass font ?