Installed Font not showing in Sketch

[erik.toussaint]

Hi,

I'm on Windows 10 and I've followed the steps on the page

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/fusion-360/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-t...

to install a new font (actually two).

The font is usable in Drawing, but doesn't show up in the drop down box when adding text in a Sketch.

I've tried the Text Command "Sketch.TextWritingSystem /any" as suggested in Message 3 of the following Forum Post; the command completed succesfully, but the font still doesn't show up.

https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-design-validate/can-t-add-ttf-font/td-p/6917516

I've attached a zip file with the two fonts. I've donwloaded them from the following page: https://www.247tailorsteel.com/nl/nieuws/sophia's-blog/2022/02/21/lettertypes-lasersnijden

[jhackney1972 · Accepted solution]

Fusion 360 does not particularly like TTF fonts so you need to convert them to OTF Fonts.  The Screencast will explain the process of converting and installing.  A zip file of the OTF fonts is attached.

[erik.toussaint]

Thank you, John

I am now able to select the font in the sketch.

Unfortunately, now I get a 'cannot complete extrusion" error, when trying to extrude the text.

When trying to explode the text in the sketch, I get another error: "could not retrieve the profiles of the selected text".

I found this topic:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Fusion360/comments/cgfonj/extruding_text_in_custom_font_doesnt_work/

which mentions a Youtube video and online converter. I glanced over the video and tried some conversions, but could not get it to work yet. Will try some more later.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

For me, the font (in OTF) was accepted neither in Inkscape nor in Gravit Designer. Only V-Carve pro could do something with it.
Try it in other Vector graphic applications.

günther

[HughesTooling]

Does it fail with all characters, what text did you try when it failed.

Just testing in Rhino and it seems OK, actually looks quite good. Might be just certain characters that are a problem.

[erik.toussaint]

Hi Mark,

The texts I tried were "M6", "M8", "Fix" and "<----->".

[g-andresen]

Hi,

The font, like many others, is not accepted by all applications or processed in such a way that it can be used in Fusion after export as DXF or SVG.
So I was able to create a text in QCAD, but I could not import it into Fusion as DXF and as SVG only with various disturbing line elements.
Unfortunately, this is the case with some fonts.

günther

[HughesTooling]

Strange, most fonts that fail have obvious problems when you look at the curves in Rhino but these fonts look quite good so not sure why Fusion's failing! @jeff_strater  Is this something that can be looked at.

Mark

[HughesTooling]

DXF attached from Rhino, works fine in Fusion, nice clean splines!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

As I have already written, there are problems with this font not only in Fusion.

günther

[erik.toussaint]

I managed to get it to work by first converting the font to postscript .ps and then back to .tff, using the following site: https://convertio.co/

There was an issue with the number 8, which had intersecting lines. I had to explode the text and trim those lines, but after that it worked OK. Still not perfect, but good enough for now.

[jhackney1972]

Did this process allow you to add the TTF font so Fusion 360 would see it or did you still have to go TTF to PS to TTF to OTF to make it workable?

[erik.toussaint]

I could add the TTF font, so I went from TTF to PS to TTF and installed that in Windows.