Outlined text

[falldown7standup8]

A co-worker has asked me to create a memorial piece for his deceased father. I have burned some letters out in the past on our plasma table, But I had to draw the letters in AutoCad because when I import text into ProNest 2010 it will just scribe a line for the text or burn a line instead of cutting out the letter. So the text has to be drawn in an outline-stencil style format to burn out on our table. I read through some other posts, But they were not much help. I have attatched a file that shows the memorial and text without any of the nature stuff added to it. Basically I need to duplicate these letters and make them 2D if that makes sense. My only other option is to use the TITL_BLK_ROMAND font and then trace around the letters and that will be very, very time consuming. Thanks in advance for all of your help.

[cmiller66]

Hi there,

If you have Express Tools installed, you can use TXTEXP.  If you don't, try WMFOUT > Create a new file and select the text, then WMFIN.  After inserting the text back into the drawing, you can explode it and trim/edit as required.  That should do it for you.

A quick Google search turned up this thread discussing these and a few other options: http://forums.augi.com/showthread.php?t=52982

Thanks,

Chris Miller

AutoCAD Test Development