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SHAPE TO DXF

    09-Nov-93 13:20:41
Sb: SHAPE TO DXF
Fm: Jean-Paul Peretz 72570,1766
To: SYSOP, ALL (X)
What is the best way to bring a 3DS shape (SHP) into AutoCAD. In Rel1 you could save the shaper to a DXF. Too bad it's not there anymore. I have text (using a FCG Franklin Gothic PS font) I want to extrude with a rounded front edge. So I tried to scale it in the lofter but it seems that each letter should be done separately otherwise everything converge to the center of the text. It tried outlining it one letter at the time (You cannot outline selected) and create several shapes that way, but outline splits the distance between the original and the new polygon and that can create problems. I was thinking to export it to AutoCAD and use the OFFSET command, but how ? I tried saving to an AI file and converting in Corel to DXF but it looks terrible in Corel (very boxy). Maybe also there is a better way altogether.