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shx text to solidworks

shx text to solidworks

shx text to solidworks

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What would Y’all recon would be the best way to get some shape file defined text out of AutoCAD into Solidworks, for a sheet format? We don’t have the font anywhere as a ttf, and solidworks wont interpret the shx file, I can text explode the text, but it’s rather thick text, that’s been filled up by more or less hatching, so when I explode the text I get something like 4000 lines for a sentence, and, needless to say, solidworks doesn’t handle that too well. I’ve tried doctoring up the text and filling it in with a solid hatch, that works fairly well, but it makes for overly large sheet format files, and slow response form solidworks. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks in advance,
nick

RE: shx text to solidworks

Do you have a very strict requirement for the font?  How close would a TTF have to be in order to be acceptable?  If you can find a TTF that's close enough you could make all text (dims, etc) match the sheet format.

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