Exploding text for laser cutting in AutCad LT 19 (PC)

[Anonymous]

Hi, I have been trying unsuccessful to use wfin and wfinout and explode to try to make the BiBli and 3.0 text outlined correctly for laser cutting. Nothing seems to work. Any suggestions? 

[chriscowgill7373]

It could have something to do with the drawing not having been created by an Autodesk product.  I was unable to get it to work with WMFOUT or WMFIN as well.  When I attempted it with Full AutoCAD and the express tool TXTEXP, it worked, but brought the text in a different location.

[Patchy · Accepted solution]

This can be done with full version

[pendean]

The commands are WMFOUT and WMFIN, but all of your text needs to be set to a width more or less than 1.0 for the tip to work.

Then don't forget to explode what you import back with WMFIN command.

[Anonymous]

Thank-you! For some reason explode doesn't work with wfin/out in LT 19

[pendean]

It does if you change the width of the text as I noted in my earlier reply before you export to wmf. Did you skip that part?

See attached, from LT2019, not perfect, but that's the limitation.