Have any improvements been made to 2012 allowing plain text to be exported on flat profiles as dxf files? Currently the only method I can use is manually adding text to the dxfs but i'm hoping there is a more efficient way. Thanks
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Nothing new that I know of but..you can extrude text into a sheet metal part and it will be part of the flat pattern (just did it with 2011) but its the outline of the text..But won't that work anyways. Or do you just need the centerline of the text profile as a single line only.
Its the centre line of the text that I require. We use an etching tool for text but cannot use this with the block text that you get from extruding into the part. Any ideas?
@robbieg wrote:. Any ideas?
Yep..manually add it to the dxf
You can right click a 2D sketch and select "copy to flat pattern". It is an option in v2011. Not sure if a single line text font is available within Inventor.
Stephen R.
@stephenrottloff7259 wrote:You can right click a 2D sketch and select "copy to flat pattern". It is an option in v2011. Not sure if a single line text font is available within Inventor.
Stephen R.
sadly it doesn't seem to work. when the exported dxf flat pattern is opened in autocad all you see is the bounding box for the text but the text doesn't come across..
Using the extrude text into the sheet metal part trick was not acceptable because it created thousands of tiny line segments.
What I did is create a simplified text font in Autocad, basically tracing the Arial font. It took a little bit of time to do but then it needs to be done only once. This is what I use in Autocad to build part numbers or text to be included with a flat pattern sketch. I place the characters as I need them, clipboard copy them, then paste into the 2D sketch within Inventor.
I am guessing that windows fonts used within the 2D sketch are not supported to transfer to the flat pattern because they are not vector based.
Hope this helps.
Stephen R.