![]() ![]() scale the texts smaller (I choosed 70%) Any idea what this all means, and how to use it to draw a wondering if you could help me just a little bit more. I can't even begin to understand how it is drawing the characters, because there are codes such as 02F and 01C in there, which mean nothing to me. ![]() What does all that mean? I can't find a simple guide anywhere. I have no clue how the special codes work. Where I'm now stuck is how to draw the ¾ character. So I can easily use the definition of ¼ and ½ to remap [ (U 005B) and \ (U 005C). It has a unicode character for ¼ (U 00BC) and ½ (U 00BD), but not ¾. I wasble to use the DUMPSHX utility to create an SHP file of the RomanD font. SprinkCAD, another product, does the same thing but uses h instead of \ for ½. They use \ as ½ in pipe sizes because 2 1/2 isn't as efficient as 2\ and substituting to 2½, as an example. The particular extension I'm using is HydraCAD, which is for designing fire sprinkler systems. The reason for substituted characters is for pipe sizes. If you don't understand how shapes are defined, how are you going to be able to adjust the definition of a character like that to make it correspondingly bolder? SHP file, and plug it in where the definition of the \ character is in your bolder one, in place of that character's original definition, but it won't be bolder like everything else in that font. The instructions in the Customization Guide are, shall we say, "challenging," but that's not the same as not being helpful - they tell you exactly what you need to do, however hard you may need to concentrate to "get it." Yes, you could simply pull the definition of the 1/2 character out of the "default" font's. Now that it can, I would discourage you from using such a font, for three reasons: 1) you don't have the use of those replaced characters at all if you should have a reason to want to use them, and 2) anyone to whom you send such a file needs to have that same font, and 3) if you should ever change text-containing objects to a Style that uses a different font, you'd have to remember that you need to carefully go through and proof-read everything, to be sure you don't miss any substituted characters that will now become inscrutable.īut if you want to go that route anyway, you probably should make the effort to understand how shapes are defined. Fonts with substituted fraction characters like that were helpful back in the days when AutoCAD couldn't stack fractions. ![]()
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