It worked so well, I not only did most of the Autocad fonts, but made some new "fonts" consisting of Autocad's x-hatching patterns
The lisp file basically took the selected font and built a drawing of all the font characters in a locational format that matched SmartCAM's fonts. Once the drawing was built, it was saved as a DXB file. Then a new blank drawing is opened, DXB file read in, and now the entire text font consists of lines and arcs, perfect for machining on the SmartCAM side. The only limitation (may not be, now) was that a SmartCAM SH2 file was limited to 240k size, so the really cool fonts made to big a shape file. The grunt work involved was assigning a user command to each character on the SC side, which could be done with a macro due to the conveniently placed point in front of each character.
If anyone is interested, I'll dig out the programs, docs, and any of the (SH2) fonts that I converted and zip up for email...... fun stuff!
At 08:22 AM 12/4/01 -0500, you wrote:
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> Greg King
> Group Leader
> Manufacturing Services
> Rittal Corporation
> Phone: 937-629-2485
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>Any chance you have the information posted in the SmartCam users group
>regarding "machineable" text. I want to do it here but don't want to
>trace over letters in Autocad with a polyline (doesn't look too good).
>I know the users group had talked about it in the past and I believe
>someone actually sent a file with text that was "machineable".
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