Giving up on engraving in Fusion.

[rlaury]

I have spent the last 2 day trying to get this font to extrude. It shouldn't be this hard. It's a font that I have to use for my customer.I can place the font anywhere i want, resize it all of that process is normal. but when I try to extrude it .015" below the surface Fusion 360 can't find it. I have tried .TTF and .otf  I have it installed in Windows 10. It works on Inkscape.   If anyone has any suggestion please let me know

Helvetica roman 55 .ttf

Helvetica roman.otf

[seth.madore]

Please share your Fusion file so we can see what you're dealing with.

File > Export > Save to local folder, return to thread and attach the .f3d file in your reply

[rlaury]

Seth: Thanks for looking in to this. I have tried everything I know. Please let me know what I'm doing wrong.

[PatrickPowers-Renk-America · Accepted solution]

It really should be easier. I understand your frustration.

[seth.madore]

When creating text for the purpose of engraving, there's no need to actually perform an extrusion to the model. All one needs to do is create text and select "Engrave". Now, if there is a customer need to machine to a specific depth, then yes, one must Extrude into the model. To do so, one must select the text (in Sketch mode) and select "Explode Text".

 

[HughesTooling]

@seth.madore  Do you have the Helvetica roman font installed? If you don't and from the look of your file you don't, Fusion defaults back to Arial. The Helvetica font seems to be only free for personal use so I haven't downloaded it to test.

[rlaury]

Hi:

Thanks for the response. I do have the Helvetica 55 font installed.

[HughesTooling]

@rlaury  My reply was to @seth.madore I think his sample file is using Ariel. There seem to be quite a few fonts that Fusion will not work with, really then your only workaround is to use something like Inkscape to create an SVG.

Mark

[seth.madore]

Ahh, thanks for pointing that out, Mark. No, I did not have Helvetica installed. I'll try it again this morning

[seth.madore]

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@rlaury wrote:

Hi:

Thanks for the response. I do have the Helvetica 55 font installed.

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Where did you find the Helvetica font, as I'm seeing multiple sources for them. Did you select .ttf or .otf?

I did find one that would show up in Fusion, but it's failing when it comes to Engrave or even Extrude