-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 I don't really know a lot about blender, but I am working my way through these tutorials:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro You may find them useful. As I see it, blender is not really a Saturday afternoon to pick it up thing. You may wish to try wine to run the 'free' windows app if you are on a time deadline. Peter Van den Wildenbergh wrote: > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFH9by4wRXgH3rKGfMRAk9wAJ9MKM3GhzyTQUZKv0Cct8IthozKfwCgqPOw /FTddIJ4qErKUn/ZTdV1ON4= =wmBr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ 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
