Engrave problem
Ronni
solution but couldnt find any...
"The way Solidworks treats fonts in a sketch is to add thickness to
them. (which makes perfect sense, as you couldn't create a feature
from zero-width text)"
Well, Camworks wants to trace around the letters instead of tracing
the letters' centerline. This doubles the length of time required to
engrave text, produces inferior looking parts, plus it's just
conceptually wrong.
So I have the same problem in 2007... there must have been some
solution to this??
Since we arent making it, but getting it done changing the software
aint an option, so the solution I need is one where I can send a dxp
file saved from my SW drawing.
pixbur...@gmail.com
> Hey this seems to have been a problem since forever, I tried finding a
> solution but couldnt find any...
>
> "The way Solidworks treats fonts in a sketch is to add thickness to
> them. (which makes perfect sense, as you couldn't create a feature
> from zero-width text)"
>
> Well, Camworks wants to trace around the letters instead of tracing
> the letters' centerline. This doubles the length of time required to
> engrave text, produces inferior looking parts, plus it's just
> conceptually wrong.
>
> >From 2001:
>
>
> So I have the same problem in 2007... there must have been some
> solution to this??
>
> Since we arent making it, but getting it done changing the software
> aint an option, so the solution I need is one where I can send a dxp
> file saved from my SW drawing.
...try using the Camworks fonts.
enat
pixbur...@gmail.com
> solution but couldnt find any...
>
> "The way Solidworks treats fonts in a sketch is to add thickness to
> them. (which makes perfect sense, as you couldn't create a feature
> from zero-width text)"
>
> Well, Camworks wants to trace around the letters instead of tracing
> the letters' centerline. This doubles the length of time required to
> engrave text, produces inferior looking parts, plus it's just
> conceptually wrong.
>
> >From 2001:
>
>
> So I have the same problem in 2007... there must have been some
> solution to this??
>
> Since we arent making it, but getting it done changing the software
> aint an option, so the solution I need is one where I can send a dxp
> file saved from my SW drawing.
The Camworks font is segmented, but it will work in a pinch.
enat
Bo
> Hey this seems to have been a problem since forever, I tried finding a
> solution but couldnt find any...
>
> "The way Solidworks treats fonts in a sketch is to add thickness to
> them. (which makes perfect sense, as you couldn't create a feature
> from zero-width text)"
>
> Well, Camworks wants to trace around the letters instead of tracing
> the letters' centerline. This doubles the length of time required to
> engrave text, produces inferior looking parts, plus it's just
> conceptually wrong.
>
> >From 2001:
>
>
> So I have the same problem in 2007... there must have been some
> solution to this??
>
> Since we arent making it, but getting it done changing the software
> aint an option, so the solution I need is one where I can send a dxp
> file saved from my SW drawing.
Another way isto use True-Type fonts.
Pick TT fonts which suit your "look" for final stroke width. I have
used Arial Rounded & VAG Rounded Bold for a lot of plastic part
engraving (I've seen them generically called Poster Fonts).
VAG was created by Volkswagen AG, (similar to the "Lifesaver" candy
font) and there are a number of similar fonts that have "round ends"
on the open ends of strokes, which allows easy engraving of recessed
characters with a round end mill directly.
Using a TT font and putting text in/on a part raises the file size of
the part significantly
Bo
Ronni
I have tried to find the fonts you both have mentioned without any
luck, seems my google skills arent what they use to.
If you have a link for any of these it would be much appriciated
Thanks in advance
Bo
Single line stroke fonts for minimal work in engraving are obviously
best for speed and small file sizes, but when you want or are required
by a customer to do more elaborate fonts, you can.
The following URLs are active, though I've not searched them for fonts
for a couple years, so I'm not up on who has what fonts.
www.font-finder.com/fonts.html
http://www.fontfont.de/fffstuff/f_central.html
http://philsfonts.com/index.html
http://www.fontlab.com/html/fontfinder.html
Bo
pixbur...@gmail.com
The Camworks font is installed with Camworks.
Edit the sketch, turn off 'use default font' , click font box, select
Camworks font.
enat