BEST FONT FOR DXF OUT 1

[EdDanzer]

We are needing to send out DXF files for qoute.
What is the best font and setup for exporting text on a drawing page so it will look correct?

 

[JNR]

This might depend just as much on the receiving system (specially text fonts as opposed to line fonts)? I have been the rounds on this in the past on other systems, but never had to do it on SW.

Trouble is, usually the receiving end don't understand the nature of the problem using pipelne translators like DXF and complain that "your" system didn't convert properly. I suggest some simple test files first which just contain samples the likely candidates for errors.

Good luck!


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[rocheey]

"Best" ? .. hee hee, thats kind of subjective, but I doubt it would start a flame war like asking that the 'best' OS is.

SW maps best to .DWG files, dimensions aligned non-orthagonally to .DXF can come thru 'funny.

If you have to export dxf's, see if you can export version 13 or later. One way to see, would be to export a simple rectangle (polyline) from acad as ver 13 or newer, and see if it shows up with their importer.

If you *have* to export acad r12 or earlier dxfs, you're pretty much gonna have to stick with plain vanilla text.

Most important, make yourself up a MAP file for sw --> acad
If you can export v13 or newer, use "TrueType" fonts and SW line types.

 

[JNR]

Here's a tip which I ought to have known and only found out yesterday by accident when someone sent me some DXF files.

eDrawings reads DXF's and does not apppear to convert them to anything, so it seems like they show up "native" ie. interpreted strictly to DXF spec. This might be a tool to check what the actual DXF looks like after it leaves the source system and before it reaches the target system. That might show you where any difficiencies are occurring.

BTW: If .DXF's are not registered to any other program on your system, they should be automatically registered to eDrawings. So they show up as an icon that looks like a drawing format with a big green "e" attached to it. It this case all you do is double click and up comes eDrawings. You even get black backgrounds and colored lines, etc.

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[EdDanzer]

Rocheey,
The “True Type” font with Arial seems to work well with V13 and V14.
JNR,
Thanks for the tips.

Ed Danzer

 

[CajunCAD]

I save the drawing to a .dwg
Then open the dwg and set the text styles to Romans. I have to do this 2 times as 1 font will change to Arial. When I set this to Romans (for the second time) it makes a "good" drawing file.

I also purge all and audit to clean up the file.

Louis