Good-evening All, Does anybody know a bit about Blender? I would like to create 3D characters and export them to DXF format (Or some other 'common' CAD format) I need it to create free scaleable texts from TTF fonts in a CAD system...
On windows there is a 'free' tool called Elefont (ELEvated-FONTs) http://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/FrmDownloads.html, I kicked out my last Windows system back in 2003... My ultimate goal is to script things so I don't have to do anything manual... put short text in .txt file Pick available .ttf font ... and magically there is a DXF created seconds later. I found this on a Blender forum: add>>>text>>>(go to edit window and select font)>>adjust dimensions/bevel/spacing etc in edit window>>>alt C ( convert to curve )>>alt C ( convert to mesh ) >> select all vertices in edit mode and press 'remove doubles'. that's all there is too it. then export to .dxf Seems easy, but I have never used Blender before so I failed miserably... I have the feeling I am missing some basics... Anybody willing to spend some one-on-one time in return for some coffee and donuts? If there are more people interested in this ... I will bring more donuts. Maybe something for ProgSIG ? Thanks Peter _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
