Are You Using Modern Fonts?

[ROK99]

The company I work at has been using the ancient BLOCKFONT in all CAPS for decades.
Very "old-looking."

Do your drawings have a contemporary look?
Does your company use a modern font?
Which one?

 

[NXJockey]

ge_font6 for us. After lots of testing when we first deployed ug (a long time ago now), this font seemed to survive our printing and various other reprographics processing

 

[NutAce]

We are using Latin Extended. Not using the True Tape fonts though.
In the past we had issues with decimal points not visible on printed out drawings when using din or some other font types.

Ronald van den Broek
Senior Application Engineer
Winterthur Gas & Diesel Ltd
NX9 / TC10.1.2

Building new PLM environment from Scratch using NX11 / TC11

 

[Toost]

Yes, Arial Unicode MS.
I have not seen a pen plotter since...
- And thus the need for the "Unigraphics fonts" ...

When we swapped, i did read the standards ( Both company standards and Swedish/ ISO) quite seriously to see if there was anything written on howthe characters should look.
Nothing. ( I was expecting complaints on this. )
The rules are that the characters must be easy to read/plot/copy/microfilm etc.

Regards,
Tomas

 

[MikeHyde]

When we switched to BS8888 a couple of years ago we went to Arial Unicode MS. I am now in the process of changing to Arial as Arial Unicode MS was included as part of Office 2013 and but is not included in Office 2016. This is causing some problems with our newer machines.

Mike Hyde

http://www.astonmartin.com

NX10.0.3 with TC11.2.1 and Vis 11.2

 

[ROK99]

We are considering a change, but worried that our model-based, PMI parts, could have problems if recipients don't have the same font available. Then it would have to revert to a default, and maybe make mess with formatting. So a "GE" font may fail when outsiders use our PMI.

 

[Toost]

The action should be, and have always been in Unigraphics / NX, that if the used font is unavailable , NX uses Blockfont instead.
The Problem with this is that way-way back in time, Unigraphics only used ASCII for the input. ASCII is only 127 (?) characters which led to that in other languages we had to use odd methods to map local characters in local fonts. "$|" was mapped to "ö" and similar. Those characters was of course lost when UG swapped to Blockfont.
The use of True type Fonts should be the more future proof way.


Regards,
Tomas

 

[SDETERS]

We are using Tahoma Font. Cheaper to print. I could not believe when this was being looked into, being the cost in toner to print a certain font was being taken into consideration. It also looks ok also.