Text Outlining

Jarren Ryan

Hello, I am trying to cut out some letters and numbers on my waterjet machine using bricscad platinum. Although to cut it out i need to get the outline of the font only for it to cut. I am using a font that came inbuilt with the software.  

Regards

Daniel Eiszele

Use the txtexp command to explode the text to poly lines.
http://www.bricsys.com/bricscad/help/en_US/V9/CmdRef/source/T/TxtExp.htm

Its_Alive

Hi

You tried using the TXTEXP command?

Its_Alive

Daniel was a bit faster!

Gary Adams

 Would toggling TEXTFILL to OFF accomplish the same thing (for TrueType fonts)? 

Louis_Verdonck

 No, the FILLMODE system variable only controls the display of filled areas such as hatches, solid fills, polyline widths, TTF fonts. TXTEXP converts the text entity to linear entities (lines, arcs, plines, ...).

Louis_Verdonck

 Sorry, not quite correct: FILLMODE controls hatches and solid fills, whille TEXTFILL controls TTF fonts.