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Next, enable Object Snap (F3) and select the tip of one of the line segments and add a vertex. Repeat the same process for the other line. You will determine how much of a gap to create by moving the cursor along the line. You can do this by BREAK and clicking on one line segment.

character O), so I had to find a workaround by introducing a small gap to the character to essentially joines two lines into one.

In my case, the lithographic pattern fracturing software cannot recognize when one polyline is nested inside another (e.g.at sharp corners of “r”, for instance), so I’d select the straight segment and PEDIT -> OPEN. Sometimes a curved and straight segment cannot be joined (e.g. After all lines in a character are in polyline, select all the lines and JOIN again, and you should be able to join all the line segments of a character together.Enter “Y” and specify the precision (1-10) of the conversion. You will be ask “Do you want to turn it into one?”.

You can convert splines to polylines by selecting splines and PEDIT. A somewhat tedious task is to check different line segments and convert them all to polyline. Because of the difference in line type, not all segments will be joined. If you select all the lines in one character and JOIN, you will find that some line segments become spline, while others remain line or polyline.Then select the line you don’t want and delete. This will separate individual line segments within the polyline. To get rid of unwanted lines, you can select the polyline and use BREAKUP (EXPLODE) command.For instance,įrom here I will offer several ways in which you can clean up the text to be in its final form. When you first see your text, you will most likely see a crude outline of the text, with lots of unwanted lines everywhere, and most lines will not be joined so they do not represent a closed loop.Go into AutoCAD and open your_file_name.dxf.You can keep the default options and save.

If you double click the text now you will see that each character is now its own object and has its own path.

To begin, open Inkscape and create text using whichever font and font size you’d like.

For this workaround I’m using AutoCAD 2017 Mac edition. Anyway, in order to properly incorporate text into your design, you must create outlined versions of your text. Maybe it works in the Windows version, I don’t know. I’ve tried the text explode tool ( TXTEXP) in Express Tools, but at least in the Mac version of AutoCAD it does not work. Normally, the text you enter in AutoCAD is automatically hatched, which for some reason cannot be read correctly by mask fracturing software. This post will explain how I created exploding text inside AutoCAD for lithography mask design using Inkscape.