afpina wrote:No.
In this case, If I understand it rigth I'll have to have an Autocad licence to correctly convert to dxf or dwg?
Now, obviously when someone in any kind of different activitie asks me for a dwg , and since I don't own a copy of autocad, I don't see myself spending hours, asking that person to make a template, and send it to me so maybe I can get my files right for him to see them.That person SHOULD send you his average AutoCAD file, WITH the fonts (eTransmit in AutoCAD 2000 and newer, Pack and go before) if he wants to get anything like what he does. That is true even in AutoCAD-AutoCAD translation. Oh yes, there is such a thing!
Either archicad is dwg compatible (standalone) or is not. I need of course font-font conversion.It is
Who uses which font (SHX or TTF) in which style, which pen for what layer and so on is exclusively local decision. If anybody expects you to follow a rule, he should tell you what that rule is, right?
Karl wrote:Yes it is. Users don't do it. Volo View AFAIK does not use True Type.
1. Is it not possible for AutoCAD to use TrueType fonts?
Forget using any fancy font if the DWG is going to the consultant(s) - Arial, preferably narrow, that's it.
2. If it is possible, why don't our AC fonts go across as we have used them? If it is not possible, then how will it ever be possible to truly exchange documents via dwg?Because they are not on the recipient's machine, that's why. If the True Type is not there, it cannot be displayed, and therefore your drawing is ... not censored
, but not looking properly.So if the font license agreement does not forbid it, send the TTFs along with the DWGs.
The other way is much easier, IF you have AutoCAD, as Autodesk supplies a set of True Type fonts that are exactly same as the standard AutoCAD SHX fonts.
No, I don't like it, either.
Djordje wrote:Thanks, Djordje. So, VoloView is part of the problem when I examine the dwg's on my machine (which of course has the fonts) before sending them... perhaps the fonts really are referenced in the dwg.
Volo View AFAIK does not use True Type.
Forget using any fancy font if the DWG is going to the consultant(s) - Arial, preferably narrow, that's it.
2. If it is possible, why don't our AC fonts go across as we have used them? If it is not possible, then how will it ever be possible to truly exchange documents via dwg?Because they are not on the recipient's machine, that's why. If the True Type is not there, it cannot be displayed, and therefore your drawing is ... not censored
But, there still seems to be more at issue...since the proportional font (Mr Hand) is treated as a fixed-width font - and in the case of one consultant who I sent the TTF file to...he still got a Courier-like SHX font instead of Mr Hand.
There is dark magic and mystery in all of this...
Karl
This might also belong to the save DWG from PlotMaker topic, but here is how far I got:
Here is what I did: I created a reference/template DWG file, for simplicity I created the text styles named after the Architectural FontPack fonts. The fonts I used in AutoCAD were freeware truetype fonts, ArchiTEXT, ArchiTEXT Bold, CityBluePrint, Architect, but this is secondary since it can be changed in AutoCAD by editing the Style itself. Any freeware or generally available font will do it with more or less degradation of artistic integrity:) as you can see the Glasgow style uses Broadway
(screencapture 1)
Entering the font-styles conversion, (like MrHand MrHand-clever:) reading in, it converted fine into a pmk drawing, and translated into the AFP fonts as
expected (the AFP fonts extend a bit more over the rectangle, but that could be somewhat compensated by tweaking the autocad style.
Then I saved the pmk file back using the same translation file, and the original DWG as reference/template for the output...
(screencapture 2)
Groovy! .......
Details from PMK files look nice in AutoCAD:)
(screencapture 3)
So what's the problem, why the long nose:
BECAUSE on the LAYOUT it is a different song.
You don't have the SAVE AS option on the Layout, you can only PUBLISH these into DWG, but that doesn't seem to use the Font-Style conversion settings, the resulting dwg file only has the Standard textstyle and it is goofing off. Moreover: when the same dwg is read back as a drawing, the arrangement of the text blocks is messed up. NOT A PRETTY PICTURE.
(screencapture 4)
P.S: Looks like I only could attach one screenshot at a time, so to be continued...
Here is what I did: I created a reference/template DWG file, for simplicity I created the text styles named after the Architectural FontPack fonts. The fonts I used in AutoCAD were freeware truetype fonts, ArchiTEXT, ArchiTEXT Bold, CityBluePrint, Architect, but this is secondary since it can be changed in AutoCAD by editing the Style itself. Any freeware or generally available font will do it with more or less degradation of artistic integrity:) as you can see the Glasgow style uses Broadway
(screencapture 1)
Entering the font-styles conversion, (like MrHand MrHand-clever:) reading in, it converted fine into a pmk drawing, and translated into the AFP fonts as
expected (the AFP fonts extend a bit more over the rectangle, but that could be somewhat compensated by tweaking the autocad style.
Then I saved the pmk file back using the same translation file, and the original DWG as reference/template for the output...
(screencapture 2)
Groovy! .......
Details from PMK files look nice in AutoCAD:)
(screencapture 3)
So what's the problem, why the long nose:
BECAUSE on the LAYOUT it is a different song.
You don't have the SAVE AS option on the Layout, you can only PUBLISH these into DWG, but that doesn't seem to use the Font-Style conversion settings, the resulting dwg file only has the Standard textstyle and it is goofing off. Moreover: when the same dwg is read back as a drawing, the arrangement of the text blocks is messed up. NOT A PRETTY PICTURE.
(screencapture 4)
P.S: Looks like I only could attach one screenshot at a time, so to be continued...
screencapture 2...
screenshots 4...the ugly one...
