Imported fonts do not extrude

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Imported fonts do not extrude

Anonymous
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Hello, 

The inbuilt fonts in Fusion 360 are not suitable for a laser cutter. The stencil font was the closest to usable but the gaps are too small and not designed for a laser cutter. I then downloaded some fonts online from https://www.1001freefonts.com/. The files came in a .ttf file and so I then converted them into an .otf file through https://www.fontconverter.org/

I then went to Windows -> Fonts and then copied the file in there. The font was able to be selected and displayed. However, when I tried to use it to extrude or cut but it will not work.

Laser cutters use .dxf files and so I exported the file and viewed it with https://viewer.autodesk.com/. The areas with both the existing and imported fonts only have a box and no text. 

Thank you

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g-andresen
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Hi,

maybe this might help?

 

gรผnther

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HughesTooling
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@Anonymous wrote:

 

Laser cutters use .dxf files and so I exported the file and viewed it with https://viewer.autodesk.com/. The areas with both the existing and imported fonts only have a box and no text. 

Thank you


Did you try right clicking on the text while editing a sketch in Fusion and then Explode Text so you have curves to export. Can you attach the ttf font you're trying to use?

 

Mark

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Anonymous
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This worked, thank you

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daantjeeik
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For me, the above solution does not work. Fusion says: "Could not retrieve the profiles of the selected text" when I try to explode.

 

I am using Futura Bold font in OTF format (see attachment).

 

 

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g-andresen
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Hi,

Just for your information:
Inkscape also refuses to accept Futura fonts.
Try a TTF version (although OTF is usually preferred) or create the text in an external vector graphics application and export the paths as SVG.

 

gรผnther

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HughesTooling
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@jeff_strater  Is there anyone we should tag in for fonts that fail like this?

 

This font actually look nice and clean in Rhino, maybe one letter's the problem?

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Thanks Mark

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g-andresen
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Hi,

Both Inkscape and Gravit Designer refuse to work with this font.
Import via V-Carve shows clear contour deficiencies.

 

gรผnther

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daantjeeik
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I solved it temporary by using Illustrator to make an outline and import that as .dfx. Not very parametric though.

 

@HughesTooling, the specific text failing for me (only in fusion) is TRAP EYE, if thats of any use.

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HughesTooling
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This might be causing the problem. Seem to remember Fusion not liking overlapping letters.

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I don't have time at the moment to restart Fusion (new font is not showing) to experiment with this font but try experimenting with character spacing to get rid of the overlap.

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daantjeeik
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Interesting. I put all the letters below each other, but it still gives me the error. Weird stuff.

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HughesTooling
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@g-andresen wrote:


Import via V-Carve shows clear contour deficiencies.

 

gรผnther


From pictures you've shown before from V-Carve it looks like V-Carve is linearizing the splines in the font.

In Rhino and Alibre I get good clean splines so don't know why some programs can't read these font.

Alibre

HughesTooling_0-1666631368227.png

Rhino, STEP file from Rhino attached. Actually one of the cleanest set of curves I've seen from a font!

HughesTooling_1-1666631425168.png

 

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