Easiest/free way to make custom fonts for Inventor

[will_roe]

Hi!

I'm looking for some advice/ideas on how to go about the below-

See attached images.

Currently we're creating ID Tags (see attached "ID Tag") in Auto Cad by copying blocks and exporting to DXF for plasma cutting.

I went and created a ID TAG with I-Logic that you can just type in the characters (these update the emboss feature) that are needed and it auto-resizes the tag and then a 1 button click exports it to our cutting folder ready to go. The problem came when I tried cutting with standard stencil .TTF fonts (see font test top left 2's are what we currently use) but they all had terrible cut quality because our plasma cutter.

I do have a idea for a work around that involves creating punches and literally parametrically driving them onto the ID tag which I think will work but it just seems messy and a lot more effort.

So my question is there a easy way to take something drawn in Autocad (see "font needed". These are the only characters I need) and create a .TTF to work in my emboss feature? Could this work or will it still generate .dxf that cuts just as bad.

Any idea welcome!

Cheers,

Will

[WCrihfield]

I'm thinking that I probably wouldn't bother trying to create a new Font.  I would probably try to create a separate fully constrained Inventor sketch block of each character individually.  Then when you enter text in your form for the characters you want on the tag, I would use a Rule that replaces each character in the string with the corresponding sketch block, nested together side by side.  That way you have complete control over the lines/geometry.  Then if necessary, just scale the sketch blocks as needed.  Just a thought.

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