drafting-fonts

simplex or romans

15 degree oblique is nice

:good:

ROMANS
WIDTH FACTOR: 1.299
OBLIQUE ANGLE: 10d56'

For large text, I replace ROMANS with ARIAL.

DDSM

I'm with Dan, although the other way ...arial for most, Romans for the rest. Arial Bold if there is major information to be told.

-JD-

drafting-fonts- Mark

The Leroy font is available for free..it's been around quite a while..Google it

drafting-fonts- Mark

Paul:

Remember the font that I sent you a few years ago that I use in Generic Cadd 6. It is a text font exactly like Leroy Templates. You can't see the difference in one or the other. The Leroy font you show is the same as the Leroy font in Generic Cadd and there is some differences with the actual Leroy templates. The only thing is with this text font, which by the way is not the standard text font (the one I use)provided in Generic Cadd is an add on font that the firm I worked for acquired from I know not where, and is not a recognized font in ACAD or will not import in the same.

drafting-fonts- Charles

Yes, I remember you sending me that font Charles.

Here is a link I just Googled, it's over 700 different acad fonts..Leroy is listed

http://www.cadtutor.net/forum/showthread.php?39712-762-SHX-AutoCAD-Fonts

Thanks everyone. You sure get quick, and good responses on this site.

Paul, I looked for Leroy, and did see your "autocad fonts" link. Are those fonts something you can load up in excel and word and acrobat as well? Or are "autocad fonts" different "animals"? Please excuse my ignorance.

I experimented with some of the recommended ones that just come in the different softwares. I typed skinny numbers over fat ones, and looked at whether the right side lined up (like the below):
1.11111
0.00009

My biggest gripe is the ones that don't line up well. Arial, RomanS, simplex, all worked well in word and acrobat. Arial didn't work in excel, but I found that "Arial monospace" did. (I tried "technic" also. It's nice-looking font, but doesn't line up.)

I have seen too many plats that link in an excel files and the columns of numbers don't line up. I know it's mostly just cosmetics, but I hate that. It's bad drafting to me.

Anyway, I like that "Arial monospace". It doesn't have the serifs similar to leroy drafting, and it looks pretty good.

(for guys that aren't old enough, Leroy was a lettering set tool commonly used in hand drafting)

Thanks (again) MC

drafting-fonts- Charles

Paul:

Here is what the font I use with Generic Cadd looks like.

drafting-fonts- Charles

Charles...I use Generic Cadd as well, for near 20 years now. Have you had any success getting it to work in win 7?...I still run it in with XP.

Still a great app..we bought General Cadd a couple years ago to printplot our final plans on our new plotter.

drafting-fonts- Charles

I got Survey 4.0 to work in windows 7, only the display screen is about ½ size or smaller, but so far I can't get Generic Cadd to open up. I loaded it in with my original backup disks and that may be the problem. I haven't tried to delete the install and reinstall with new backup discs. Also, these programs need a parallel or serial port printer/plotter (LPT1 or Com 1, etc.)

drafting-fonts- Charles

Yea I got Survey 4 to work too, but like you said in the same ass small window.

I could not get Cadd to work at all and tried 10 different times, I even tried the virtual machine thing, it worked but was way too sluggish to be useful. We got General Cadd to work around the printer port problem as most new laptops dont have a printer port or serial port.

Mark Floan answered one of my posts about this a few weeks ago, I think he said to use virtual machine...I just use a dual boot with XP and Win7 but use XP 95% of the time..

sounds like we have the same setup.

drafting-fonts- Charles

What did Mark say the Virtual Machine was going to do and what does it take to try this?

The port problem is something that will be almost impossible to fix as most, if not all new printers/plotters are or will be going USB or wireless. Soon a parallel port printer won't exist or maybe they don't now. I haven't tried to find one, so I can't say on this.

drafting-fonts- Charles

He said this first..

"If you get Windows 7 Professional (not Home Premium) and you can't run software in 64-bit OS, you can download/install the Microsoft XP Virtual application (free) which installs a virtual XP computer on your desktop. Or, if you have extra copies of XP lying around and want to use Win 7 Home Premium, you can install a free virtual computer from VMWare.com (the VMWare Player), then install XP into that. They both work well, but the Microsoft application seems to be a little faster to boot up. Win 7 Professional will run you about $90/computer more than Home Premium."

Then I said this..

"Mark, did you ever get survey 4.0 working in Win 7? or Generic Cadd?
I run a dual boot on my laptop for work, Win 7 for some stuff (not much) and then have win xp pro for my survey progs (Survey 4 and Generic Cadd)...not the most convienent setup but serves my purposes...actually use Win xp most of the time but one has to be careful as some comps do not supply drivers for xp...took me about a week to set up XP on this HP notebook...I had to reconfigure the XP install disk in order for it to install."

He replied with...

"They will run in an XP window."

And thats all he said..I think you were in on that post...

I like Simplex with a 0.7 width factor.

drafting-fonts- Charles

My Win 7 computer is 32 bit Home Premium desktop. I put in the 32 bit version so hopefully my cogo and cad programs would load in and work. My computer guru says that these programs should work in Win 7, but not having much luck with Generic Cadd. Never loaded in Draftsman DXF until I can get G. C. up and going. I have them loaded into my XP computer, but there are some minor items that needs a work around, like the mouse in order to snap to an object. But they all work though. Still the best solution is my old original Dos 6.2/Win 3.11 hard drive to make everything work efficiently. 🙂

Romans

width factor: 1.125 bearings & distances & ownership
2.0 acreage
2.5 headright
3.0 roads & waterways & lakes

oblique angle: 0° bearings & distances & headright
12° ownership & cert & most other text
15° acreage & roads & other physical features

I am starting to use comical sans in some documents, especially revisions.

drafting-fonts - Mark

> Thanks everyone. You sure get quick, and good responses on this site.
>
> Paul, I looked for Leroy, and did see your "autocad fonts" link. Are those fonts something you can load up in excel and word and acrobat as well? Or are "autocad fonts" different "animals"? Please excuse my ignorance.

All of those fonts I linked are shx (shaped font file) ones and made using Cad. I do not know if they will work in Acrobat. You may want to check out the TT (True type) fonts that, I think, are windows based ones.

drafting-fonts- Mike Mac

I am also a Generic user, well I was, started in 1987, finally made a full switch to General Cad and I am glad that I did. I think that was about 5 years ago. I started with ver 5 and now I am using ver 10.. Thier surveyor 3D progam is pretty good...contours are a snap to do, even with an occasional bug popping up now and then.