For drawings, what font do you use?

[CM10]

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?

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[CBenner]

I have everything set to Arial... .125

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[eslotty]

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,




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[CM10]

Interesting point Eric, thanks for the heads up. I just checked and the "font" PDF was 345kb, and the "simplex" PDF is 800kb. A significant increase for sure, but not unmanageble. We generally don't send out as many files as we get, so that's not really an issue. If so, we can always also send the .ttf file(s) with the models, and have the vendor make sure they load the .ttf file in the correct directory. It turns out our fonts are scattered in a few places, so I had to find the font and put it where it needed to be for it to work. Strange, because you can change the font of something in the "text style" and it finds the different fonts ok, but changing the global setting meant it couldn't find it.

In Reply to Eric Slotty:

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

[CM10]

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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[TrainStopper]

Just wondering, but has anybody fiddled an ascii font to also have the
slash through the zero?

I've fixed my 1 and I, just need the zero now...



Regards,

Walt Weiss

[CBenner]

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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[TrainStopper]

The slashed zero can be made by modifying your ascii.src file, located
in your loadpoint\text\usascii directory



I did it by replacing my default ascii font files.

Don't forget to back it up!



In case anybody else is interested one day...





I created a C:\Font directory and copied the ascii.src there.

I made this edit:

Was

"0"

m 8, 4

d 6, 5

d 5, 6

d 4, 8

d 4, 12

d 5, 14

d 6, 15

d 8, 16

d 10, 15

d 11, 14

d 12, 12

d 12, 8

d 11, 6

d 10, 5

d 8, 4



Is

"0"

m 13, 8

d 11, 5

d 9, 4

d 7, 4

d 5, 5

d 3, 8

d 3, 12

d 5, 15

d 7, 16

d 9, 16

d 11, 15

d 13, 12

d 13, 8

m 11, 15

d 5, 5



I copied compile_font.exe from loadpoint\i486_nt\obj to my C:\Font
directory

Then you need to compile the .src to a .fnt with a .ndx file so it can
be used.

I created a little batch file, comp_fnt which had this line:

c:\font\compile_font.exe c:\temp\ascii.src c:\temp\ascii.fnt



This created the .fnt and .ndx files

I copied the .src .fnt and .ndx files to my loadpoint\text\usascii
directory.



Regards,

Walt Weiss