Please add all 1710 Google Fonts to onShape

madsdyd

onShape currently "comes" with 32 built-in fonts for use with the Text tool, but has no support for allowing the user to add e.g. TrueType fonts to use with the Text tool.

It seems that almost all of the built-in 32 fonts are from Google Fonts, with a few exceptions (like 2-3 fonts).

While I understand it is troublesome to allow the end user to use .ttf fonts, an alternative could be to add all the Google Fonts to onShape. This should not be too hard, and would greatly enhance the selection of fonts available to the end user. There are currently 1710 fonts available from Google Fonts and all are available free of cost even for commercial use.

S1mon

The vast majority of fonts (free or commercially available) are designed for 2D graphical use. Most of them have some letters with overlapping regions or places where things only join at a point. Those are not issues for 2D, but for things that will be extruded by Parasolid (the underlying kernel), they cause issues. So the short answer is that each font that is supported by Onshape requires additional work in order for it to be compatible with the way they are used. In theory someone could automate that work, but I suspect that would take a lot of development time.

james_weiler871

this answer seems to ignore the fact that they never added the literal MOST USED fonts. Like Arial. I mean that font is one of the most basic, and it is not there, Arial rounded, is used by a ton of things because it's BASIC. It has rounded corners, for etching, printing, or shaping, which are great when doing this to physical items, now if there were a font that actually filled its spot, then ok, but they did not do that, they have fonts that just look like someone drew them badly, but not fonts that have existed for 20+ years, and have become the standard for what people to expect. I can't imagine paying 1k+ to have a design software that has this limited of a basic functionality.

i have checked other tools, just ot be sure before i posted, and at least two of them just straight up had windows fonts in them, fusion has not only most of the fonts i expect, but also a import option, now that does not mean that onshape does not have a underlying limitation, but that's still a problem with the product. and for something this expensive, something so basic missing, is just sad.

Ste_Wilson

Arial is a poor man's helvetica.

See

https://practicaltypography.com/helvetica-and-arial-alternatives.html

S1mon

Good fonts cost money (assuming you license them properly).

Fonts designed for 2D printing don't immediately translate to Onshape for 3D NURBS modeling based on Parasolid. There are many cases where fonts have shapes touching at points or paths that overlap. These issues cause problems with extruding glyphs. It takes time and effort to tune a font for use in mechanical CAD.

It's easier for Onshape to focus on ME CAD stuff and let users export and fix stuff out of Illustrator or Inkscape or whatever.

Would it be nice to have more good fonts for Onshape, yes. Is this not happening because Onshape is being lazy or doesn't care, no.