This is terrible but I cannot for the life of me find a simple stencil type of font that only puts tabs in to retain the centers for the letters and numbers that encompass an area like A’s, B’s D’s Q’s 8’s 6’s
Also on another related issue, my Fusion 360 doesn’t seem to care what I add into the master Font file. My wordpad on my computer picks it up but Fusion 360 doesn’t
Try Googling "stencil fonts’. I use dafonts.com, squirrel fonts and 1001 fonts pretty regularly when I’m looking for something new.
You can also break any font by editing the lines/segments. I’d do that in Corel (or AI or Inkscape) and then copy the art into F360 because I find the tooling a bit easier to use. It’s also easier to make the line breaks more stylistic so they fit into the font and they look less like stencils. It’s more work than just using a stencil font but it’s a nice option when the perfect font isn’t a stencil to start with.
Thank you for the reply. I started there and cannot find anything that simply saves that center cut out on the letters that are needed. Almost all of them slice random letters for no reason. I was hoping somebody knew the exact name of a font that would do what I’m trying to do.
I’m still having the issue with Fusion 360 not picking up the fonts that I’ve added to the main font file on my computer. Microsoft Word and wordpad will pick them up
There are some that only break the letters with enclosed spaces (a, o, e, d, g…) but you’re right a lot do seem to try to create a stencil “style” and break the uppercase letters especially.
Creative Fabrica has a lot of fonts and they do a bunch of stylistic ones with stencil cutouts that are only the enclosed space. They charge for the fonts though. However, they also do free fonts every week so if you’re patient you can often get what you want for free. If I want it though I just buy it - they’re usually only a few bucks.
Are you running Windows?
Yes, I’m running windows 10. It would seem easier for most projects to just do the artwork in inspace but I am making a ruler with exact dimensions so building it in Inscape and then converting it over and getting the notches exactly an inch from each other would probably be a nightmare.
I use the font installer in Windows to add fonts vs just copying them to the font folder. Double-checking on the font file also executes the installer.
BTW, have you seen either of these sites for your ruler project? They might save you a ton of time and should insert fine in F360.
Thank you. This is what I’m attempting to make:
I ran into a big snag in that Fusion 360 keeps cutting entirely around the numbers (cutting them off my project)