Lincoln font - can't add to Fusion 360

[difalkner]

I have a font, Lincoln regular, that shows up in all MS products, CorelDraw, CyberLink, etc, but I can't get it to show up in Fusion 360.  It is a TTF, is installed, and my computer and Fusion 360 have been restarted hundreds of times since I installed the font.  How can I get it to show up in Fusion 360?

Thanks in advance!

David

[James.Youmatz · Accepted solution]

Hi @difalkner,

Sorry about the delay in getting back to you. I have seen this pop up a few times now and I believe the issue stems around a specific filter that is in Windows and latin style fonts. Your TTF shows up just fine on my Mac, but does not appear in Fusion for Windows.

A workaround I have found is to use an online file converter to change the .ttf to .otf. The .otf seems to work. I've attached the .otf in a zip file to this post. Let me know if it works!

Thanks,

[difalkner]

James,

I successfully added the Lincoln font and can use it in a drawing but I can't extrude it... is there a trick to that?  It shows up as 'Tool body creation failed'.  I changed the text to Lucida Calligraphy and it extruded just fine.  Is it because the font was converted from TTF to OTF?

Thanks!

David

[James.Youmatz]

Hi @difalkner,

Good point - I do believe you are right and it is a limitation of open type fonts, but I will go ahead and do some more research on that. The workaround, for the moment, is to right-click the text and select Explode. This should make it able to be extruded, although you lose the ability to go back and edit the text string.

Thanks,

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I read through the responses and went to the free converter website.

I might be overlooking something but none of the conversion options offered had a ttf to odf ability.

What am I missing?

The font in question; College condensed ttf shows up in my fonts page of windows but Fusion won't recognize it.

I even d/l other fonts from same page and they all show up....arggh...

Marty

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Just write your text in e.g. Adobe Illustrator, convert the text into a path, (perhaps un-group the path), store it as SVG and load it in F360. 

[Anonymous]

Thank you sir.
I d/l inkscape and am on the right track.

[lichtzeichenanlage]

Inkacape is totally fine. Most likely I will switch soon, too