topic Re: Adding a font to Inventor in Inventor Forum

Adding a font to Inventor

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:06:19 GMT

I am using AutoCAD Mechanical and Inventor 2008 and want to add a font. It is News Gothic with a .otf extention. It seems that I am able to cut the text from a word document and paste it into my Part Drawing and that seems to work. But I cannot add the font to the list of available fonts in the Styles Manager. Does anyone know how to add the font so I can add it to my drawing styles.

Re: Adding a font to Inventor

HermJan.Otterman — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 19:57:18 GMT

can you add the font to the windows fonts?

Re: Adding a font to Inventor

Anonymous — Wed, 02 Nov 2016 20:25:22 GMT

Yes, as I mentioned I can put the text on a word document and copy it then I
can past it on the part in sketch.

Edward Hebert

CAD Engineering

Whitepath Fab Tech, Inc.

118 Industiral Blvd.

Blue Ridge, Ga 30513

Phone: 706-946-5179

Fax: 706-258-3524

Email: edhebert@whitepath.com

Re: Adding a font to Inventor

-niels- — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 07:30:00 GMT

To my knowledge Inventor only supports truetype fonts (.ttf), so copy/paste would be the only method to get it into a sketch.

Depending on what you need it for i'd be careful with using opentype, worst case it might get replaced with a font that inventor uses...
(http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-ideas/inventor-should-warn-me-if-it-changes-the-font-in-a-part/idi-p/6481254)

It might be worth making an idea for adding opentype fonts to inventor, i'd vote for that.

Re: Adding a font to Inventor

Anonymous — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 11:08:50 GMT

Thanks, I will suggest that as well. It seems that the fonts I pasted into
the part stayed as the News Gothic I intended, of course I am no expert on
fonts, however the capital "G" is recognized by the little tail off the
right side. Gothic

Thanks for your input and help.

Edward Hebert

CAD Engineering

Whitepath Fab Tech, Inc.

118 Industiral Blvd.

Blue Ridge, Ga 30513

Phone: 706-946-5179

Fax: 706-258-3524

Email: edhebert@whitepath.com

Re: Adding a font to Inventor

mcgyvr — Thu, 03 Nov 2016 12:21:46 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
Does anyone know how to add the font so I can add it to my drawing styles.

The normal process is to simply put the font into the C:Windows/Fonts folder..

Inventor uses the fonts in the default windows location.

But as stated Inventor seems to only use true type fonts..