Text in a CIRCLE

[ArqCastro]

Hello everyone,

 

I have a problem drawing text in a complete circle in AutoCAD (version 2012), I used "Arctext" but the letters don't seem to stay at a even space between them... it's not a very good end result :-(

Does any one know a different command or lsp that I can use to do this in a more perfect manner?

 

Thanks in advance, Castro

[Dadgad]

Welcome to CADTutor.

 

Have you tried the EXPRESS TOOL called Arc-Aligned Text?

It should solve any problems you are having.

[JD Mather]

When using the arc aligned text it might be useful to break up your circle into arcs for more control.

[ArqCastro]

I did, but it doesn't work properly... I need to write a full circle (for watches I redraw to a Switerzerland company) and it just doesn't come out right... some letters get cluttered, pulling them apart only makes it look worse... (on the bottom image see how SWISS is...)

 

Eventually I made it on Corel (on top of the image, unfilled but there's an option to make it fill on import) and them imported it back to Autocad but... I really wanted to do everything here... but... arc aligned text is not the answer! :-(

 

And yes, I cuted a small portio of the circle so the AAT command could work.

[ArqCastro]

Oh and, thanks, I hope I can learn and share plenty here

[SLW210]

Not a problem here. Maybe it is the font or text style.

 

Can you post your file?

 

[ATTACH=CONFIG]39942[/ATTACH]

[ArqCastro]

Sure, here goes the DWG, with the imported Corel as well.

Text in Circle.dwg

[ArqCastro]

SLW210, If you use the font bigger you'll see the problem, especially between the S, the W and the I letters, try it

[SLW210]

I will give it a look as work load allows.

[ArqCastro]

I will give it a look as work load allows.

 

No worries, no rush, with the help of Corel I fixed my problem, now is just a matter of finding an alternative inside AutoCAD!

[JD Mather]

If I understand the problem -

 

I don't think AutoCAD allows kerning (is that the right term) of text (each letter has a rectangular box around it that can't overlap). The box is the same size for all letters in the font (notice in the Cap I in the AutoCAD images posted above that there is a lot of whitespace on either side.) A kerned font makes the whitespace proportional to the font and even allows part of one letter to be below another (like for the W) to keep a consistent whitespace.

 

 

One technique would be to create those as individual text letters and move as needed.