Text problem exporting to a dwg viewer 1

[DHALE1]

Sorry, I would normally do a search, but the function is under maintainence. I know I have seen threads on this before. What is the best font to use in SolidWorks, when I need to export a drawing to a dwg viewer? Some text on our drawings are getting spread out, and ends up covering some other information.

Thanks

 

[SBaugh]

I use the default test "Centruy Gothic". What do you want to use in the DWG format?

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
3DVision Technologies

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[ctopher]

I use Arial and it works very well for all of our formats.

 

[DHALE1]

Thanks guys

Scott, the DWG file is being sent to our suppliers, and they look at them thru a DWG viewer. What is actually happening is that the proprietary statement text gets spread out and covers the material section of the titleblock. It seems to be fine when I pull it up in other CAD systems, just not in the DWG viewer. I also assume that the DWG viewer supports autocad fonts, although I am not able to test this in autocad personally. We do not have autocad. Maybe I am looking at another problem? I will try your suggestions on the text.

Thanks

 

[renegade1991]

"What is actually happening is that the proprietary statement text gets spread out and covers the material section of the titleblock." From DHALE1

I have just experienced the same thing while creating our borders. Everything was 'spreading out'. Our final output is electronic dxf files so I needed to find a fix. What a pain!

My hunch is that my original borders where created in a package (CadKey?) which allows the scaling of just the text width. It seemed to be scaled at about 80%. When it goes to dxf the width scaling is removed and it 'spreads out'.

My first fix was to copy and paste back in from the SW DWGEditor. I then relized that I can just create new text (copy and pasting the text value) in SW and the problem goes away.

Hope this helps.

 

[DHALE1]

Renegade

We did convert from Cadkey. At the time I had posted, We had imported text from Cadkey for the proprietary statement. Since then, I have converted the text to SolidWorks Text. I was thinking that it might fix it, but I was not for sure. Thank you for posting, It's nice to know that it is fixed, and the reasoning behind it.

Great post

Thanks