Engraving Fonts

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micksulley
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Engraving Fonts

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I am trying to engrave some nameplates, followed a youtube tutorial and used single line fonts from this site
http://www.mrrace.com/CamBam_Fonts/
Fonts 3 & 6 error but the others work fine. The problem is that I need < and > symbols, and the only one which has those symbols is font 9, which I really don't like. I have tried to copy those symbols from 9 to another font using FontForge, but failed. I also found some more on this site
http://imajeenyus.com/computer/20150110 ... ndex.shtml
but cant get any of these to work.

Does anyone know of any other single line fonts which work with FreeCAD?

Thanks
Mick
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Re: Engraving Fonts

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micksulley wrote: Wed Jun 20, 2018 5:58 pm Fonts 3 & 6 error
What do you mean with that? If you don't need too many brackets you can combine two fonts: I have used font 9 for the brackets and font 3 for the text.
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It's been a while since I worked with fontforge but I remember to have copied symbols between fonts.
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micksulley
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Re: Engraving Fonts

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Thanks for the suggestion, simple and it works. The only downside is that I have to have 2 jobs, but I can live with that.

Just tried fonts 3 and 6 again and they work fine, don't know why I was getting an error previously.

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Re: Engraving Fonts

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micksulley wrote: Thu Jun 21, 2018 2:08 pm Thanks for the suggestion, simple and it works. The only downside is that I have to have 2 jobs, but I can live with that.
Please try the newest 0.18 version. mlampert has made changes to engrave.
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