ArqCastro Posted January 25, 2013 Share Posted January 25, 2013 Hello everyone, I have a problem drawing text in a complete circle in AutoCAD (version 2012), I used "Arctext" but the letters don't seem to stay at a even space between them... it's not a very good end result :-( Does any one know a different command or lsp that I can use to do this in a more perfect manner? Thanks in advance, Castro Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dadgad Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Welcome to CADTutor. Have you tried the EXPRESS TOOL called Arc-Aligned Text? It should solve any problems you are having. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 When using the arc aligned text it might be useful to break up your circle into arcs for more control. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArqCastro Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 I did, but it doesn't work properly... I need to write a full circle (for watches I redraw to a Switerzerland company) and it just doesn't come out right... some letters get cluttered, pulling them apart only makes it look worse... (on the bottom image see how SWISS is...) Eventually I made it on Corel (on top of the image, unfilled but there's an option to make it fill on import) and them imported it back to Autocad but... I really wanted to do everything here... but... arc aligned text is not the answer! :-( And yes, I cuted a small portio of the circle so the AAT command could work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArqCastro Posted January 26, 2013 Author Share Posted January 26, 2013 Oh and, thanks, I hope I can learn and share plenty here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 Not a problem here. Maybe it is the font or text style. Can you post your file? [ATTACH=CONFIG]39942[/ATTACH] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArqCastro Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 Sure, here goes the DWG, with the imported Corel as well. Text in Circle.dwg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArqCastro Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 SLW210, If you use the font bigger you'll see the problem, especially between the S, the W and the I letters, try it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 I will give it a look as work load allows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArqCastro Posted January 28, 2013 Author Share Posted January 28, 2013 I will give it a look as work load allows. No worries, no rush, with the help of Corel I fixed my problem, now is just a matter of finding an alternative inside AutoCAD! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD Mather Posted January 28, 2013 Share Posted January 28, 2013 If I understand the problem - I don't think AutoCAD allows kerning (is that the right term) of text (each letter has a rectangular box around it that can't overlap). The box is the same size for all letters in the font (notice in the Cap I in the AutoCAD images posted above that there is a lot of whitespace on either side.) A kerned font makes the whitespace proportional to the font and even allows part of one letter to be below another (like for the W) to keep a consistent whitespace. One technique would be to create those as individual text letters and move as needed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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