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Using two different fonts (numbers) on same drawing

michael_hopkins3W46X — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:17:39 GMT

I am drawing steam locomotive cabside numberplates and smokebox numberplates at full size which I will reduce to 1:76 to finally produce etched brass numberplates for my 'OO' gauge model locomotives. However, the font I am using for the cabside numbers is Old Street Sign and the font for the smokebox numbers is Gill Sans Semi-Bold as used by the Great Western Railway and British Railways. I want both sets of numberplates on the same drawing as I will be creating a laser print which will be ironed onto thin brass sheet to allow etching. But I do not seem to be able to use more than one font on the same drawing without the first used font changing to the second selected font. The main issue, I believe, is that the fonts are part of the drawings and not dimension annotations.

Is there a way of using two fonts in this way on the same drawing?

Thank you.

Re: Using two different fonts (numbers) on same drawing

Tomislav.Golubovic — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:29:26 GMT

You need to make a STYLE for each font.

Type in STYLE on the command line, make a style name, assign a font to it. Then do the same for the second style, give it a name, assign a font.

Re: Using two different fonts (numbers) on same drawing

michael_hopkins3W46X — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 22:56:33 GMT

Thank you so much. It's been 14 years since I last used Cad, it's taking a time to get back into it!