Here's a selection of screen grabs from the various steps: Within Windows right-click on the ttf file and "install"ĩ) load Inventor, create a text box and type the letter (in this example "a"), change the font to this new one, and then the size to what you want.
To ensure I get the same size through from CorelDraw to Inventor I change the units to the same, and the size too - here mm and 20. I think it works by the bottom of the page being the baseline of the text, so anything below the bottom edge is under the text (like the tail of a g).ĥ) with nothing selected I goto file -> export, choose a filename and "save as type: ttf"Ħ) With CorelDraw I get a dialog asking for the font's name and whether it's a symbol font (yes)ħ) Then the next dialog box shows the symbol and it's position on a baseline and a table to select what character the symbol should represent. Ok, I'm not sure with Illustrator, but here's my process with CorelDraw in the hope it helps:ġ) create the shape in CorelDraw, flatten/join all parts together to give a single object of a single colourĢ) create a new Coreldraw file and copy/paste into thisģ) set the object to a simple size, eg 20mmĤ) set the page to just fill the object - for some reason I've found this works better than just exporting the selected object. I know this isn't a solution for you today, I'm just hoping it might be in (again) in the future and a dev might see this and realise something has changed with the way fonts are handled. Goto Windows\Fonts and scroll to the end, find zzz_test and delete. I'm 90% certain this would have worked in Inventor 5 years ago but now if gives a "self interesection" error, even if you make it something massive like 200mm tall - almost as if it's trying to re-generate the symbol's profile and getting something wrong. Sadly step 7 seems to have stopped working - I'd guess about 2012 release.Ģ) in any text box press "1" (without the quotes)ģ) highlight this and change the font to zzz_test and tada, your logo. (far easier than a sketch with a load of nodes and constraints.ħ) You can extrude or emboss this text to provide the logo as 3d data in your model. In the hope that Inventor gets fixed at some point and handles fonts in the same way again, here's how I (used to) work:ġ) Use CorelDraw to convert the image to vectorģ) combine all objects together, so it's a single shape of 1 colourĦ) Open Inventor and create a text box in a sketch, use the font and tada, the logo appears and is easy to scale, move, rotate, etc. I used to do this kinda thing quite easily using fonts but for some reason the last few Inventor releases (not checked 2015) have struggled with symbol fonts, which have worked with previous releases.
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