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Drawing Borders to Solidworks

Drawing Borders to Solidworks

Drawing Borders to Solidworks

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I am in the process of converting my AutoCad border drawing to SW. Just wondering if there is a way to change the WIDTH of my Roman S font once it has been converted to a SW template.

Thanks    

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

IMO, the cleanest way is to not use the ACAD fonts and recreate them in the new SW border. Fonts and dims usually don't convert clean.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

Not that I know of.

Is the Roman S font a True Type Font? SW only uses TTFs.

cheers

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

Save yourself some grief and use a standard windows font. The default "Century Gothic" works well as does "Arial".

You'll be better off. Hell, we even use Arial in Autocad now.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2006 SP5.0 on WinXP SP2
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.0 on WinXP SP2

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

solidhardhead,
Do not copy anything from AutoCAD. Create your border from scratch, you will have a lot less trouble down the road.  We went down that road years ago.

Bradley
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.0

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

Honestly bringing in your ACAD borders are not a big deal. They have made it much easier now-a-days. You have to use the right side of the sheet however when you bring them in... Which this was discuss very recently (CBL I don't remember our suggestion on my term that I used "side")

However using the Text is useless! You browse the web and find a True type font that looks about like you want and use that instead of trying to make your ACAD fonts work... or use and existing one in your windows. However if you use a customized on from the web, if you send out your SW drawings and they don't have it if could cause some problems. I would still use the borders or at least as much of it as you can.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

I think I suggested "face" instead of "side", but the main point is to be in Edit Sheet Format mode.

I think SW has a font called SW-romns.ttf or something similar which is the TTF equivalent of ACADs ROMANS-S font. I can't check because I've banished ACAD from my computers.

cheers

RE: Drawing Borders to Solidworks

In ACAD 06, it is SWRomns.
You were very close CBL.
The only time I ever bring anything from ACAD into SW, is for geometry reference.

Chris
SolidWorks 06 5.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 10-27-06)

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