spursnutter Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Easily that is, without having to draw each character. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 Yes, try the Express Tools TXTEXP command. This will Explode the text so you will be able to Extrude it or use the Presspull tool. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spursnutter Posted June 29, 2008 Author Share Posted June 29, 2008 Thanks. I will give that a go Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay C Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 the easiest way i found was to use the regular text command, not m-text. then just type everything right click go properties and you will see a thickness tab which is set to 0, just give it a height and it extrudes itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted June 29, 2008 Share Posted June 29, 2008 the easiest way i found was to use the regular text command, not m-text. then just type everything right click go properties and you will see a thickness tab which is set to 0, just give it a height and it extrudes itself. Without Exploding the text? Can you explain exactly how this works? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay C Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Without Exploding the text? Can you explain exactly how this works? sure. i just type text in the command line (not m text) then type what you want to type. and hit ok. then you just click on the text once go properties and you will see a thickness box, and you pretty much just have to give it a number and it works. i don't see the thickness option in mtext for some reason tho. but once you give it thickness 3d orbit around it and you will see the thickness. i usually use it when i add text to one of my building renders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 I still don't understand how you're giving a thickness to text without Exploding it first? As you can see in the screenshot below, I have created a piece of text and given it a thickness, as you suggested. But the text does not change. So what's your secret? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay C Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 hmm i just tried it with a different text's styles and it doesn't show. it seems to only show on a few text styles, which is weird. sorry for the confusion, but when ever i render all i have to do is give it thickness like that and the text shows. weird. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PS_Port Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Thanks J, I learn't something new today, Cad64 looks like the problem lies with a truetype font, ARIAL doesn't extrude with a thickness change but a shx. like ROMANS does.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay C Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Thanks J, I learn't something new today, Cad64 looks like the problem lies with a truetype font, ARIAL doesn't extrude with a thickness change but a shx. like ROMANS does.. thanks for explaining that, because i had no idea why some worked and some didn't haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cad64 Posted June 30, 2008 Share Posted June 30, 2008 Cad64 looks like the problem lies with a truetype font, ARIAL doesn't extrude with a thickness change but a shx. like ROMANS does.. Yah, that makes sense. I didn't consider shx fonts because I never work with them and just don't really see a use for them in 3D. I always use true type fonts whenever I work with text because true types have some width to them and they can be used for creating signs or for subtracting from a solid. Shx fonts are just skinny line text and not very useful in my opinion. But, they do extrude, so there ya go. :wink: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRPPIPER Posted August 12, 2008 Share Posted August 12, 2008 hey dude, here is a lisp routine that creates and edits 3d-text with ease... save it to your computer and drag and drop into your dwg and away you go... last updated yesterday to work on any version autocad by the origionator of this lisp... great guy!!! 3DText.zip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spartacus Posted March 11, 2013 Share Posted March 11, 2013 Thanks for the info! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aris Posted February 13, 2014 Share Posted February 13, 2014 use this command to explode the text check the link below for more info http://computeraideddesignguide.com/how-to-create-a-3d-text-in-autocad/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Titi95 Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 Hello there ca also that I use http://www.armanisoft.ch/elefont/Elefont.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ketxu Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 (edited) They're useful tool, Titi & CRPPIPER Edited February 23, 2014 by ketxu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BIGAL Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 My $0.05 I use text 2 geometry which makes plines etc you can squish etc very simple here is a project we just did all in stainless steel look closely its dimmed and 3d Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accoes Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Can this lisp be edited to do a window selection instead of selecting a single text? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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