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MatthewMiles1-Visitor
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April 16, 2014
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Font to use in drawings

  • April 16, 2014
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I have had an issue with drawing fonts - I have trawled through the internet and sought help via our support - but simply can't find an answer so am hoping you guys can assist.

The issue - using any other font other than "font" (default) in a drawing that can be manipulated via a pen table. I have been told that some "graphic" fonts cannot be changed either in line thickness on the pro-e menu or via pen table. Looking through a lot of the fonts available it seems none of these work. Is this right?

An option is to save out as a pdf as it seems a lot of you do, but we simply want to print out using a pen table which keeps the font we like but just takes away the thickness.

Any help greatly appreciated


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Patriot_1776
Patriot_177622-Sapphire II
22-Sapphire II
April 16, 2014

We use Arial, but there's some issues with that, such as the spacing isn't right. I want a specific Engineering font, with serif on a one, capital "I" looking like Roman Numeral one (to distinquish it from a lower case "L", a zero with a slash thru it, and a 7 with the horizontal slash.

    Mahesh_Sharma
    Mahesh_Sharma22-Sapphire I
    22-Sapphire I
    April 17, 2014

    Matthew,

    Will you please explain your requirment in detail?

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    MatthewMiles1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    April 23, 2014

    Mahesh,

    Thanks for responses. Just to confirm my initial inquiry is about printing out from Pro-e using a pen table not via pdf. Saving off a pdf is a secondary requirement which basically needs to replicate what I should get when I print out from pro-e.

    So, I have a drawing. Current font is "font". I go to print, choose my destination, select the pen table we use. The drawing prints fine with the dimensions much finer thickness than what is shown on the screen. (because the pen table tells it to as the dims are yellow). Perfect for us. Now what I want to do is to update the font - we want to use a more modern looking font. We like the "win_font" font that Pro-e supplies as standard. Now when we print the pen table is ignored, the dimensions are printed out as shown on screen which is too thick for our liking. We cannot change the thickness of the font within the drawing. This seems to apply to every single font supplied other than the standard "font". This is my main problem.

    So for the pdf - if I save as TTF you get pretty much what is on the screen so the line weight is not great. If you save as "stroke all fonts" - the line weight is even greater and looks poor.

    Thanks

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    April 23, 2014

    Matthew,

    • win_font = arial.ttf (in my Creo Parametric 2.0 installation), this means it is TrueType font - not ProE font (like default font named font)
    • the shape and size of TrueType font character shown on the screen will be always the same as on paper, you have to find another TrueType font, if you do not like arial.ttf (our customers use isocpeur.ttf, free font downloadable from Web)

    Martin Hanak

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby III
    24-Ruby III
    April 17, 2014

    Matthew,

    imagine a drawing containing text written by TTF font (in Creo Parametric 2.0).

    If you save PDF with Use TrueType Fonts then Creo ignores line thickness set in pentable.

    If you save PDF with Stroke All Fonts then Creo uses line thickness set in pentable.

    Martin Hanak

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    TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    April 17, 2014

    All Non-TTF's can have thickness assigned and/or use pen tables as long as you select "stroke all fonts" in the plot routine. I am not sure you can "stroke" TTF's but I will give Martin the benefit of the doubt without trying it myself.

    I have settled on the fact that I want extra weight to the text itself over what dimension lines normally provide. I use a .012 text thickness on the ISO font which is a non-TTF font using the Stroke All Fonts in the PDF creation.

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    MatthewMiles1-VisitorAuthor
    1-Visitor
    April 23, 2014

    Hi Antonius

    You quoted:

    "All Non-TTF's can have thickness assigned and/or use pen tables as long as you select "stroke all fonts" in the plot routine."

    This doesn't work for me. Have you tried changing font to "win_font" and seeing if it recognises your pen table? Do you only use pdf to print your drawings? If you changed your pen table thicknesses does the pdf noticeably change?

    I will try the fonts you mention.

    Thanks for your reply

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