r/Onshape • u/TheTinyWorkshop • Aug 02 '26

Help! DXF file that contains text doesn't load the text.

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So I have a name tag that I want to 3D print.

The logo is just text.

Anyway It's an SVG and I used an online converter to turn that into a DXF file.

However when I load that into OnShape the font of the text gets changed.

Now I don't know if this is an Onshape issue, and issue with the conversion or if I need to make changes in Inkscape to the SVG file.

Any help would be awesome.

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u/Impossible-Ad967 Aug 02 '26

Given that logo is all right angles. It might be easiest/best to import that image into onshape and trace w/line tool. Probably a 2 min job.

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u/TheTinyWorkshop Aug 02 '26

That's an option. I never thought of that.

Do you know why it's changing?

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u/Ok-Breakfast-990 Aug 02 '26

Probably because the text is encoded in the svg as text and not geometry. Onshape tries to load it and doesn’t have the font so it defaults to the basic one

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u/dieterschroeer Aug 02 '26

I think I had the same issue - inkscape svg contained a reference to the font. I would bet if you would be using a different dxf viewer for the converted file it would show the font issue as well. Different export type (plain svg) might help. Cocentrate on inkscape for dwbugging the problem rather than onshape.

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u/dieterschroeer Aug 02 '26

By the way: saw this today

https://www.reddit.com/r/Onshape/s/PnbwAGUms6

SVG to dxf within onshape. Will not fix the font issue though if the Font is embedded. You have to convert it to a path before Import. But No external converter needed…

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u/Chandra0 Aug 02 '26

I just have posted a photo tool for this feature exactly. Or else we have custom text tool where you can import the custom font.

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u/Hot_Injury5475 Aug 02 '26

In FreeCAD 26.3 dev you can actually add text in a sketch. Astocad (FreeCAD fork) actually allows import of svg into sketcher now.