Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
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Hello all,
I am looking for a simple block-type font for stencil letters/numbers that will NOT create splines when exploded. Our laser cutter software has issues with splines, so I'm looking for characters made up of simple line & arc type construction. I'm not holding out much hope for a TTF or SHX that will fit the bill (as most end up creating splines when exploded), so even a simple DWG or DXF file that I can pull characters from would suffice. Thank you for any help!! - Bill
I am looking for a simple block-type font for stencil letters/numbers that will NOT create splines when exploded. Our laser cutter software has issues with splines, so I'm looking for characters made up of simple line & arc type construction. I'm not holding out much hope for a TTF or SHX that will fit the bill (as most end up creating splines when exploded), so even a simple DWG or DXF file that I can pull characters from would suffice. Thank you for any help!! - Bill





RE: Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
But yea, that's resulted in 'perfect' geometry for our lasers and other programming. Even when exploding text that came out as simple lines/arcs I'd still have to run "Overkill" and clean it up ad nauseum, so it never actually saved me any time. Just trace a font.
You can even just put the TTF font in there as an MTEXT object, turn OFF your osnaps, and trace it with plines/lines/arcs that way. Six of one, half dozen of hte other.
RE: Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
Edit - I just learned that setting the variable PLINECONVERTMODE to 1 makes the Polyline conversion from spline use arcs instead of line segments. Even with an accuracy of just 1, I ended up with a very nice Pline of arcs instead of the spline i used to test it. This might be very useful.
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RE: Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
I would still love to find a DXF or DWG file of 'clean' stencil letters that could be inserted as blocks.
Thank you again!
- Bill
RE: Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
RE: Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
There is a font style called airborne that has no curves, it is simple line construction only. This is a later edition of a style called military block, first used for putting registration numbers on aircraft.
Since there are no arcs in it, It does not create splines when exploded.
B.E.
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RE: Spline-free stencil letters DXF or DWG?
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Now, if anyone knows of a LISP routine that can take these blocks and insert them at a predetermined spacing & scale, that would be the icing on the cake!
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