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TomD.inPDX17-Peridot
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May 29, 2012
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Drawing and Modeling fonts?

  • May 29, 2012
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Where do Creo fonts reside and how do I add more fonts for drawings and for datum sketches.

    Best answer by MartinHanak

    Antonius,

    if you speak about TTF fonts, they are located eg. in *\Common Files\M030\text\fonts directory. You can also place additional fonts into some specific directory and use config.pro option PRO_FONT_DIR.

    Martin Hanak

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    MartinHanak24-Ruby IIIAnswer
    24-Ruby III
    May 30, 2012

    Antonius,

    if you speak about TTF fonts, they are located eg. in *\Common Files\M030\text\fonts directory. You can also place additional fonts into some specific directory and use config.pro option PRO_FONT_DIR.

    Martin Hanak

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      TomD.inPDX17-PeridotAuthor
      17-Peridot
      May 30, 2012

      Thanks Martin.

      Indeed, I learned a lot about fonts yesterday.

      I am -very- happy to finally have the Helvetica substitute font "Swiss 721" available in many styles (appearantly included in Windows 7 Pro). I uploaded them to the suggested folder and they seem to be working great. I do a lot of silkscreen drawings and models and use Helvetica almost exclusively.

      The next lesson came in using the "IGES" fonts or probably better known as symbol fonts. This gets a lot more complicated.

      I need the Creo Elements Direct fonts to work in Creo 2.0 Parametric. My client uses a font called hp_i3089_v.fnt and hp_kanj2_c.fnt, and the closest font in Creo Pro is iso30985font. It is stroke compatible but it's way to airy.

      I am working on duplicating an Elements Direct customer's drawings. Since these two programs come from one company now, PTC could provide us with a compatible set of symbol fonts. Turns out I need the source (.src) and index (.ndx) files to do this myself.

      Anyone else try this yet? Any resources that might help? TYIA

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      MartinHanak24-Ruby III
      24-Ruby III
      May 31, 2012

      Antonius,

      unfortunatelly I am not familar with Creo Elements/Direct. I can only share my knowledge concerning ProE and Creo Parametric.

      1.] ndx files are located in \Common Files\M030\text\LANGUAGE directory (e.g. \Common Files\M030\text\usascii)

      Example - font.ndx

      ascii.fnt .......... ASCII characters 0-127

      special.fnt .......... ASCII characters 128-255

      latin_1.fnt .......... ASCII characters 0-127 (enclosed between CTRL+A and CTRL+B)

      2.] src files are text files containing font definition, they are located in \Common Files\M030\text\LANGUAGE directory

      3.] fnt files are compiled from src files, they are located in \Common Files\M030\i486_nt\text\LANGUAGE directory or \Common Files\M030\x86e_win64\text\LANGUAGE directory

      4.] you can decompile fnt file using decompile_font.exe (see \Common Files\M030\i486_nt\obj or \Common Files\M030\x86e_win64\obj)

      run decompile.exe filename.fnt filename.src from Command Prompt window

      5.] you can compile src file using compile_font.exe (see \Common Files\M030\i486_nt\obj or \Common Files\M030\x86e_win64\obj)

      run compile.exe filename.src filename.fnt from Command Prompt window

      (in 64-bit OS you have to run set COMPILE_FONT_PMT=36 before compilation)

      Martin Hanak

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