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In any of the other places I'ves used Pro/E over the last 13 years, this has never been an issue. Now, some of the managers don't like the way the text in the drawings look, wanting it to be more like AutoCAD (they want EVEYTHING to look like A/C, but that's another story....).
We're now using the default text style "font", with a width factor of .8. It turns out the A/C guys are using "simplex", and I found the font and did a demo of how it looks, and it's pretty much a perfect match to the A/C dwgs, so I think we'll be making the switch with approval from mgmt. Now, the good thing is that the setting changes ALL the text (symbols, GTOL's, dims, tables, format text) with few exceptions. the bad thing is that simplex, being a true type font, is fixed width, so we'll have to heavily revise the formats and BOM's sine the text is wider. the BOM's are not a big deal, just widening the column will do, but the formats will be more work.
What are you guys using?
A few rev's ago, PDF's created from drawings with TTF font's were
enormous!! Also, The TTF needs to be on systems receiving your native
Pro/E drawings-- it may be an issue if you send Pro/E databases to
clients/suppliers.
The only TTF we use is a homegrown "symbol" font that we use to generate
industry standard icons and characters....
We use the default font with a 15 year old tweak to add a tic to the
number "1'... something PTC seems incapable of fixing....
Have a good weekend,
GE Healthcare Technologies
Clinical Systems
Monitoring Solutions
Eric R. Slotty
Mechanical Designer
8200 W. Tower Avenue
Milwaukee, WI 53223
I take it you changed it globally with the "default_font" setting in the .dtl file?
In Reply to Chris Benner:
I have everything set to Arial... .125
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That is correct. File size is not a big issue for us, and we never send out any CAD data... only PDF's. We had come from an Inventor platform and everyhting in that was done with Arial so we set up Pro to follow suit so drawings would look similar.
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In Reply to F S:
I take it you changed it globally with the "default_font" setting in the .dtl file?
In Reply to Chris Benner:I have everything set to Arial... .125
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