Installed Font Not Showing in Fusion

[erikscott128]

I have a font called MS 33558 installed on my computer. However, it doesn't show up in Fusion 360. It's a ttf type font. Any idea how I can get this in fusion? I've had this font for a while, so it isn't just a case of restarting fusion. 

Thanks

[innovatenate]

Can you share the font with us? If you can share the ttf font, we will be able to investigate closer. If it is a symbolic font, there may be some limitations. Fusion purposely excludes symbolic fonts. See the below forum thread for more detail. 

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/many-ttf-font-s-showing-placeholder-blocks/m...

I'm not sure what you're looking to do with the text, but the suggestion in the below forum discussion may be helpful. 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/post-your-tips-and-tutorials/getting-any-text-and-svg-file-into-fusion...

I hope that helps! 

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

I'm having the same problem with the same font. I've tried to attach it to this reply, but the site doesn't seem to be completing the upload. The font is a Milspec typeface found on military aircraft instrument panels, identified as MS 33558.

[Anonymous]

Was there any update with this? trying to get the same font. Installed on system, but doesn't show up in Fusion.

[av8shunmeckaneck]

A help topic from Autodesk says the font has to be .tiff format. Maybe PNG doesnt show up.

[jhackney1972]

You can find the MS 33558 font at this location.  The video will show how to add it to Fusion 360 but it also shows why you may not want to.  I am showing the process used in Windows operating system.  If you do install it, remember Fusion 360 must be re-started to make it show up.

[jhackney1972]

Just to update my previous post.  I converted the TTF font to an OTF font and Fusion 360 seems to like it better.  To install the attached OTF font, in Windows, right click on it and select "Install for All Users".  I will remind you again, to have Fusion 360 closed when installing the font and upon restart it should appear.

Font attached below in ZIP format.

[MichaelT_123]

Hi Mr. ErikScott128,

... look at https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/explode-text/m-p/9747425

(there are some other about the issue, dig the  out)

 How to check possible restrictions?

Open folder  \\Windows\\Fonts\\ 

Check property column called Embeddability

In the column you will find some short description of font limitations/use.

Mind you. These limitations/conditions of use might be specific to the specific hardware, OSs, locales,... only

and can be quite convoluted (or sometime relaxed).

Regards

MichaelT

[howard.vass]

Thank you very much for the information, and for responding to my previous post

I had no knowledge of "font embeddability", and the four types of restriction permission fonts can have (at least on Windows) – installable, editable, print/preview and restricted.

After skimming over some info about that, I'm still not entirely sure why this applies to Fusion 360, or why it can't be dealt with, but here we are.

As with my marrage, I had looked at this font for a while and decided it was the only one for me. No substitutes 🤣

The keyword "embeddability" was enough info for me to start googling for workarounds.

And so...

https://cloudconvert.com

.ttf to .eot > .eot to .ttf

Happy wife, happy life  😁