Convert text string to custom letters from blocks

Convert text string to custom letters from blocks

rhgrafix
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Convert text string to custom letters from blocks

rhgrafix
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Does anyone know of a macro to convert text strings to premade blocks of a home made font? Like A. Werning's 3dtext but much simpler as 2d. Thanks!

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ronjonp
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@rhgrafix wrote:

I know you're trying to help but those letters are not optimized, the have a billion vertices, it has to be blocks that I make, I don't know how to be more clear. 


Good deal 🍻 .. sorry for the confusion.

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Kent1Cooper
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@rhgrafix wrote:

.... Here's a screenshot of abcde....

abcde.png

 


 

 

 

If all the characters are of that plain-and-simple nature, made up of only straight lines and circles/arcs, an .SHX font could presumably be defined [I made one once!], so that you wouldn't need any replacement routine but could just type the Text.  In those particular characters, the exact extent of the open ends of the arcs in the 'c' and 'e' might be slightly different, because of the nature of defining octant arcs in shape definitions, so it would be important to know whether that kind of variability matters.  And it would be necessary to see the shapes of the other characters, to evaluate whether they would work with AutoCAD-font-definition possibilities.  [Or, if there's something about what you use them for that requires them to be Blocks and not Text, that kills the idea.  Is the replacement with Blocks only because you have Blocks of the shapes you want but don't have a matching font, or is Text something your process can't work with?]

Kent Cooper, AIA
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Sea-Haven
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It seems every one is on the same page trying to help you, dont throw away T2G it allows you a starting point for any font you want to use. You can trace over them, replace multi arcs etc but end up with a good looking font character without the multi segments. I know have done that. They are hollow so you can make Laser suitable like "A" with a centre piece. It sounds like you have the right idea 0.7x1.0 for block.

 

 

 

 

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