French character. 1

[SiW979]

No, no, not Pepe Le Pew, what I would actually like to know, is it possible to and one of these characters ( à ) using blockfont in NX

Many thanks in advance.

Best regards

Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)

http://www.jcb.com

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[JohnRBaker]

You'll have to add that one yourself (I would, but I catch a plane in two hours, maybe after I get back home, if you can wait that long). We did include (è) in blockfont, but not (à).

John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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[SiW979]

John

It's no use, I've tried and tried to get to grips with Font Factory yet I fear that it would be easier to fully understand my Wife than that damn software. How on earth do you add a new font? If you would be so kind as to either tell me how to create the letter á or even create it for me, I would be be most grateful. Ideally I would like to know how to create a font as I would like to add our company logo if that is at all possible? I've attached a sketch of it.


Many thanks in advance.


Best regards

Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)

http://www.jcb.com

Life shouldn't be measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of times when it's taken away...

 

[Buddy91600]

An answer from France

RMB3 on your annotation / choose Edit Style
and change the text font from blockfont to iso-1 or Latin_extented.

These 2 fonts contains all the spécial caracters used here like
àéèùç...

Hope this help

Buddy91600

 

[SiW979]

Thanks for the help Buddy, but I really need it adding to the BLOCKFONT as this is the font that we use for all our drawings.

Best regards

Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)

http://www.jcb.com

Life shouldn't be measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of times when it's taken away...

 

[JohnRBaker]

Simon,

I'm back from my trip, however just barely (but that's another story altogether) so if it could wait a day or two, I'll get you both your French character as well as your logo.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[SiW979]

John

I'm so grateful, however there is no rush, as and when is convenient for you is just great. I spent 5 hours trying to figure out that infernal software, but alas, to no avail.

Best regards

Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)

http://www.jcb.com

Life shouldn't be measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of times when it's taken away...

 

[JohnRBaker]

OK, attached is a new version of 'blockfont' which contains the additional character ( à ) which you insert using the control character sequence '$A' (note that this is an UPPER-CASE 'A'). Note that it's safe to replace your existing 'blockfont.fnx' file with this one, if you wish to, since it contains all of the standard characters found in the original OOTB 'blockfont.fnx' file (as well as the two, 'Greater than/Less than or Equal to' symbols, which I created earlier, '$G' and '$L').

Now as for your logo, are you looking for something which can be embedded, as if it were a character, in text string (note), or are you just looking for a way to use it as a single 'entity' without having to add a large number of lines and arcs to a part file every time it's added to a drawing or some other 'document'?

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[SiW979]

John

Thank you so much for the addtional font, in terms of the logo, something that could just be embedded in a string of text as a regular character. We have UDF's of sketches for extruding and for general pads/pockets etc, but people would love to be able to insert the JCB logo in text as well if it is at all possible.

Best regards

Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)

http://www.jcb.com

Life shouldn't be measured by the number of breaths you take, but by the number of times when it's taken away...

 

[JohnRBaker]

For now the only direct way to do that would be to convert your logo into a User Defined Symbol. The problem with that is that you can only include 'artwork' which is made up of line segments, which means that all of the arcs in your logo would have to be replaced with 'polylines'.

Now you could convert your logo, as modeled, into a Custom Symbol, but those cannot be embedded in a text string, at least not until NX 7.5 (which I already tested using your 'artwork' and it worked great).

So those are your choices.

John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Design Solutions
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA

http://www.siemens.com/plm

http://www.plmworld.org/museum/

To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.

 

[SiW979]

Thanks John for all your help, much appreciated. I have got to make a couple more UDS's so I'll conver the curves to polylines and do it that way.

Best regards

Simon NX4.0.4.2 MP10 - TCEng 9.1.3.6.c - (NX6.0.3.6 MP2 native)

http://www.jcb.com

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