True Type Fonts In NX2

[lsl49]

Does anyone require True Type Fonts on their drawings?
In order to acquire True Type Fonts we export our files into AutoCAD, place any required text, then we send the AutoCAD file along as artwork with the Unigraphics file out for manufacturing. It's my understanding that the True Type Fonts in Unigraphics NX2 are not much help. They look great on the model but appear as wireframe on the drawing. Any suggestion out there? Are we missing something?


Larry Leonard
Designer
Smith-Nephew Orthopaedics

 

[Xwheelguy]

UG only recently added True Type fonts in the form of Modeled Text in UGNX 3. You type in the text you want to see, locate it & it creates the curves. As far as I know, when dimensioning or adding any sort of annotation to a drawing, there is no native support for TTF.

I'm a little unclear what you're using the TTF for in AutoCAD. Are you simply adding engraving to your parts or what?

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com

 

[lsl49]

The artwork created in AutoCAD is silk screened onto the object. So far we have not found any way to recreate a true repsentation of True Type Fonts in Unigraphics that vendors can use.

Larry Leonard
Designer
Smith-Nephew Orthopaedics

 

[Xwheelguy]

That has been a major gripe with some users of UG for a long time. UG has never supported TTF (until the release of NX3). What you need to do if you can't migrate to NX3 is find a way to convert the TTF in ACAD into curves that can be imported into UG. Once you do that, you can import the curves that represent the TTF into UG & place it however you wish. If you're going to actually model the text onto your UG part, you will have to make sure the curves have no gaps in them.

Another alternative, but unfortunately not a free one, is to purchase Wiedemann Engineering's True Type UG. This is a UG/Open API program that is invoked within UG and converts TTF into curves & allows for the placement of the curves along a guide curve or on a surface. I believe it costs around $1,000 per license the last time I checked. More info can be found here:

http://www.w-eng.de

Hope this helps.

Tim Flater
Senior Designer
Enkei America, Inc.

http://www.enkei.com