Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
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Hi. I'm using a free copy of Coral Draw to make a graphic of a type font. It's easy, you use the Text Tool (which draws upon a font file somewhere on your PC), then you scale the size up to what you want. And the drawing of the font is smooth-lined. Even on large magnifications.
But the drawing is not an engineering drawing. So, I went and downloaded DraftSight.
I'm wanting to produce an engineering drawing of an official font in DraftSight. But, I'm not sure I can. Does anyone know if it's possible? I think if it is possible, you would have to insert a file. Thanks.
But the drawing is not an engineering drawing. So, I went and downloaded DraftSight.
I'm wanting to produce an engineering drawing of an official font in DraftSight. But, I'm not sure I can. Does anyone know if it's possible? I think if it is possible, you would have to insert a file. Thanks.





RE: Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
RE: Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
Another way is if you could get a .wmf (Windows metafile) of the character(s). I think you can import that and maybe make it line entities instead of text. Will CorelDraw export files as .wmf's?
RE: Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
You have to do this though before saving in Inkscape:
* Convert the text to path (Ctrl+Shift+C),
* Ungroup the characters (Ctrl+Shift+G),
* Combining them back together (Ctrl+K)
The current problem is the quality of the drawing in DraftSight, unless I can do something.
When the drawing of the font is opened up in DraftSight, it's at a Drawing Unit of 120. So, the dimension line shows 120, (equavalent to 120mm in my system). Nice smooth lines.
The font needs to show as a dimension as 5, that is 5 mm. So, I scaled until the dimension line showed 5. But, the quality of the lines now low, not smooth.
So, I need to keep the scale as original, but my dimension line must show 5. How can I do that? Thanks.
RE: Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
RE: Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.
Secondly, there is a scaling factor that can be applied to the dimensions, in your case 0.4167 (5/12). It is in the dim properties dialog box. There are two, one is the sie, the other is the units factor. That's the one you want. I don't have DS on this laptop, so can't look up these things.
RE: Making engineering drawings of more complex shapes.