topic How to change colour of text outline for laser cutting? in AutoCAD Forum

How to change colour of text outline for laser cutting?

Anonymous — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:22:05 GMT

I have drawn some text for CNC laser cutting and the colour of the outline is black. When I put the cursor over the letters it says, Colour:Black, Layer: Defpoints, Linetype: Bylayer.

I tried to change the colour from black to white but it would not let me, I am new to autocad so I might be doing something wrong.

Has anyone got any ideas on how I can fix this?

Thanks.

Re: How to change colour of text outline for laser cutting?

john.vellek — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:31:39 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

Color 7 is unique in AutoCAD as it will display black on a white background and white on a black one. Try using color 255 to see if that works with your process.

Please select the Accept as Solution button if my post solves your issue or answers your question.

Re: How to change colour of text outline for laser cutting?

Alfred.NESWADBA — Fri, 26 Oct 2018 20:37:25 GMT

Hi,

>> I tried to change the colour from black to white

Color 7 (which shows as black AND white) is one special color, that is the opposite of the background. So you can't use color 7 in that case. If you want to have anything real white you can use the true color tab and select e.g. 255,255,255 to get a clean white, but make sure in that case you are not working on white background, otherwise you would not see the text.

To your thread title:

>> change colour of text outline

AutoCAD's fonts do not have outlines, it's just one text with one color (no differentiating between outline color and filling color).

You might use ExpressTools function TXTEXP (>>>details<<<) to get outlines from a text (which needs a bit or reworking afterwards) ... that gives you separate outlines for your truetype font based text objects.

- alfred -

Re: How to change colour of text outline for laser cutting?

john.vellek — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 19:03:19 GMT

Hi @Anonymous,

I am coming back to your thread to see if the issue or question you posed has been resolved. If so, please mark the post or posts as Solution(s) to help others find the answer quickly. If your issue persists, please give me a bit more detail on this issue so we can continue to work towards getting this solved.