I have a request from one of our sites that needs to put a laser cut font on sheet metal parts. This font will allow the letters to be cut without having the entire letter drop through.
Example but not exactly what I am looking for:
Does anyone have any contacts for such a font? I have been through all the PTC provided fonts but could not find what I need.
Has anyone found a good font for use when Laser Cutting Text out of sheet metal? A font that has tabs to hold the centers of 'ABDOPQR's. Feel free to forward me anything you think might work.
Thanks in advance for you quick reply.
Vaughn
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I ended up using a free font editor Fontcreator5.5 to edit Arial Bold font. Just add this to your<proeloadpoint>\text\fonts folder and away you go. Thanks for all the replies
I do this as well. Be aware, though, that when creating PDFs in Wildfire 3 some of the fonts will not convert (particularly Bold type) unless the font actually resides in <loadpoint>\text\fonts folder.
To me this is a bug, but PTC wants an enhancement request filed - which will probably not get addressed.
I believe this is an Adobe PDF issue because I get the same thing when using Acrobat. If I create a flyer or something with an interesting font, it doesn't come through on the PDF unless you have the font on your machine. I'm not sure if there's a way around it, but I know I've seen it outside of Pro/E.
That's actually a printing problem you experience, in that Acrobat (or any printer) will substitute a font for one that doesn't actually exist on the host machine.\
The problem I describe is more a PTC problem as some of the fonts that reside in c:\windows\fonts convert and some do not, even though the user has specified pro_font_dir as the Windows font folder.
