GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
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Hi,
I'm curious to know if there GD & T fonts with stacked tolerance composite feature box capabilities for Excel & Word? I found some online, but thus far, the one's I found does not allow creation of stacked tolerance feature control boxes
Thanks
I'm curious to know if there GD & T fonts with stacked tolerance composite feature box capabilities for Excel & Word? I found some online, but thus far, the one's I found does not allow creation of stacked tolerance feature control boxes
Thanks





RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
Your CAD software probably came with GD&T symbols. You can insert these if you need to generate a piece of paper or a PDF file. I have SolidWorks here, and I just tested SWGDT, and it works.
If you send your Word or Excel file to someone who has not installed SolidWorks, they will not see your symbols. Think hard about your end user.
RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
Peter Truitt
RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
Thanks for the feedback. While exploring the Internet, I did discover a few sites that can create GD & T symbols & composite feature boxes.
However, if I wanted a stacked composite feature box, I would have to make outside Excel or Word, which is fine, then copy a picture image to paste into Excel or Word.
If making a single line, I could directly paste into Excel or Word & modify as desired.
Thus far, I haven't been able to find a similar application to create a stacked control feature box with any GD & T font sites.
Actually, I think I may have found one, but it would cost some money to get & I'm not sure if it has the full capabilities, as described above.
Perhaps, someone else knows of one.
RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
As far as making PDF's from drawings, we always "stroke all fonts" so there is no worry about how it looks on any computer anywhere in the world. I've seen way too many PDF files with funny squiggles in them due to missing fonts.
RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
I have not created a lot of PDFs from MicroSoft Word. I have created them from LaTeX and from Open Office. These applications embed their fonts into the PDF file. I have never had problems on other computers. I do not know about MicroSoft Word, but it is a pretty obvious good idea.
RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word
I must admit that, presently, I do not "stroke all fonts" as dgallup does. I no longer work in a field that is particularly safety-related such as medical or aviation. But it is certainly something to keep in mind if you need to be extra careful. I don't have time to try it today, but there are various settings in most applications that allow users to "stroke all fonts". Adobe Acrobat would allow you to "stroke all fonts" but maintain the ability to search for text. In this case, the visual layer is a raster format, but there remains a hidden layer that is text search-able.
Peter Truitt
RE: GD & T Fonts for Excel or Word