Autocad font files
henk schaap
type B.
Can anybody help me
Thanks
Henk Schaap - the Netherlands
henk schaap
K.C. Jones
>I am looking for autocad font files according to ISO 3098-1 type A and
>type B.
In R13 we ship a full set of ISO 3098-10 fonts called ISOCP*.SHX and
ISOCT*.SHX. ISOCP is the proportional font. ISOCT is the "tabular"
or fixedwidth font. Each comes in three different forms corresponding to
ISO standard line spacings of "19d, 15d, 13d, where d=line width" - whatever
all that means. I'm just reading from the spec on that particular nuance...
These fonts were derived from some fonts that shipped with R12 in various
European locales. Unfortunately, I don't have any exact information on the
ISO compliance of availability of these R12 fonts.
Paul Taylor
> In R13 we ship a full set of ISO 3098-10 fonts called ISOCP*.SHX and
> ISOCT*.SHX. ISOCP is the proportional font. ISOCT is the "tabular"
> or fixedwidth font. Each comes in three different forms corresponding
> to ISO standard line spacings of "19d, 15d, 13d, where d=line width" -
> whatever all that means. I'm just reading from the spec on that
> particular nuance...
>
> These fonts were derived from some fonts that shipped with R12 in
> various European locales. Unfortunately, I don't have any exact
> information on the ISO compliance of availability of these R12 fonts.
Like many UK and European consultants, we use ISO3098 printing for both
hand and cad produced drawings.
Interestingly, we *did not* use the ISO.SHX which is supplied with R12
because it looks so awful! I don't know what they did with it, but it is
too angular. We use one we found a few years ago, source now forgotten,
which matches extremely well with hand-stencilled ISO3098.
I can, however, vouch for the fact that the ISOCP fonts supplied with R13
and *much* better, and are visually identical to ISO3098.
I did learn a couple of things from kc's post - but why is there no
documentation for the different fonts that are shipped? I never worked
out why there were all the different ISO font files until I read his post!
Paul Taylor, Computer Services Manager
WSP Consulting Engineers, Tadworth, Surrey, UK.