well you got to see those graphical displays again. In DraftSight >Open the Format Tab > Format Text, OLF SimpleSansOC showed as a True Type Font and when selected ….
I wanted to see if it had the same font and if we could make use of it. Once the font was sized and positioned>Right Mouse Button the face of the part> Export to dxf/ dwg Before taking the dxf file into our CAM program – Entroute5 I had a look at an existing file in DraftSight. The text on the part however displays quite normal. The graphical preview of the Font in the Choose Font box is a little off-putting at first. Add text to a SolidWorks Part by starting a new sketch> Select Text Tool > Deselect Use document Font> Select Font – OLF SimpleSansOC. Having to produce a few new templates today there was no better time than now to start to swing across to using the Stick Font. For us it was not a big problem but it does take additional time to run and can get messy when the tool starts to lose an edge depending on the size of the text. (although it makes little difference as shown later) When cut on the CNC we end up with an outline text. It is quick and simple often copy & pasted across multiple parts and we are normally in there nesting the components anyway.Īs we would use a True Type Font, normally Verdana. Much of the time the text would be added to the dxf in DraftSight.
The Templates are normally used for marking out locations or cutting fabrics and the like. When we do it is to most often label or add instructions when producing Templates.
We don’t do a lot of Text engraving with our CNC Router ( Multicam CNC SR2415). SolidWorks 2014 added the “Stick” or Single line Font – OLF SimpleSansOC to provide a better resource for those who need to export to CNC machines (Routers, engraves). With SolidWorks 2015 Beta just a few weeks away, it was a post from Matt Lorono – Product Definition Manager at SolidWorks Dassault Systemes which reminded me that I still haven’t fully utilised SolidWorks 2014.
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