converting text into actual lines

[gargoyle27]

i am trying to make a file for our plasma cutter to cut numbers out of steel, is there a way to convert text directly to an outline so the machine can read it?

[alanjt]

Express Tool: TxtExp

 

[gargoyle27]

i searched and found that already, but i don't have express tools and they weren't on my install disc either as far as i know

 

is there another way?

[alanjt]

Express Tools should have come standard (somewhere on disk). I wonder if they can be downloaded from the site.

 

Try WMFOUT and WMFIN (not sure if they are Express Tools).

[gargoyle27]

that's for importing and exporting wmf files, and i don't know what those are or how they would help

[ReMark]

There should have been an option when you first installed Mech 2009 for also installing Express Tools. If you have the original installation disk get it out. Then go to the Windows Control Panel and find the Add/Remove feature. Additional content can be added, after-the-fact, via Add/Remove.

[alanjt]

that's for importing and exporting wmf files, and i don't know what those are or how they would help

Right, if you WMFOUT the text, then WMFIN the created file, it will break all your text into lines. That's basically all TXTEXP does. You should have given them a try.:wink:

 

There should have been an option when you first installed Mech 2009 for also installing Express Tools. If you have the original installation disk get it out. Then go to the Windows Control Panel and find the Add/Remove feature. Additional content can be added, after-the-fact, via Add/Remove.

Correct. Hopefully you can find and install ET.

[ReMark]

Read through this thread about Text Explode. The OP had a request similar to yours.

 

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?t=47146&highlight=Explode+Text