A TrueType font library that provides drafting and other CAD symbols

Some time ago I posted this Idea.  The Ideas Forum has been updated and shows a post date 27-Jan-21, which is the date that the Forum was updated, not the date that I created that idea. 

That Idea also shows my suggestion to be shipped.  If that is the case, how can we obtain that TrueType font library? Do you have any comments, ?

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  • Yes, something many of us have wanted, even needed, for a long time. But it may still have one pitfall, my clients won't have the font. Maybe we can get Microsoft to include it with Windows. The standard Windows fonts lack even many of the basic stuff we use every day. I believe I've looked at most all of them.

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  • Looks  like we users need to build a true type symbols font version  then give it to Bentley  to distribute as an general update  ...

    Before we go too far BENTLEY DON'T BURY this post in ideas .. hardly anybody goes there to look for anything and especially now you have to create new login...  forget it!

    So for somebody to do this they will need a list of things to be included

    here is some I would like

    PL   Plate  

    CL  centre Line where letters  are C over the L  like the olden days drafting

    <

    > =   The real math version  of greater than or equal to  and the opposite  Less than or  equal to  ie where the >  has a  sloped parallel under bar

    Diam symbol  like the greek lower case Omega? but same size as the capital version

    Ohms symbol like the greek capital Omega

    squared  power of 2

    cubed   power of 3

    Yes I know we have some of these in lots of others font combinations and we use the favorite symbols  but to have them in one place as a Cad symbols font would be great  it would be sort of like windows windings...

    It would make it so much easier to look in one place to add to the a favorites in symbols function in text  editor and  make drawings more consistent looking 

    once we have a  complete or adequate list then a  more clever person than me can get hold of one of the free true type font makers and import , modify , create what is needed..

    Now the only drawback I see after building it would be getting it to  bentley, then getting bentley  to deliver it as an update to all users  fonts  folder...and  building it into new installs for all versions  from now on... and on occasion adding extras to it...

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
    click link to PM me 

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  • Looks  like we users need to build a true type symbols font version  then give it to Bentley  to distribute as an general update  ...

    Before we go too far BENTLEY DON'T BURY this post in ideas .. hardly anybody goes there to look for anything and especially now you have to create new login...  forget it!

    So for somebody to do this they will need a list of things to be included

    here is some I would like

    PL   Plate  

    CL  centre Line where letters  are C over the L  like the olden days drafting

    <

    > =   The real math version  of greater than or equal to  and the opposite  Less than or  equal to  ie where the >  has a  sloped parallel under bar

    Diam symbol  like the greek lower case Omega? but same size as the capital version

    Ohms symbol like the greek capital Omega

    squared  power of 2

    cubed   power of 3

    Yes I know we have some of these in lots of others font combinations and we use the favorite symbols  but to have them in one place as a Cad symbols font would be great  it would be sort of like windows windings...

    It would make it so much easier to look in one place to add to the a favorites in symbols function in text  editor and  make drawings more consistent looking 

    once we have a  complete or adequate list then a  more clever person than me can get hold of one of the free true type font makers and import , modify , create what is needed..

    Now the only drawback I see after building it would be getting it to  bentley, then getting bentley  to deliver it as an update to all users  fonts  folder...and  building it into new installs for all versions  from now on... and on occasion adding extras to it...

    Lorys

    Started msnt work 1990 - Retired  Nov 2022 ( oh boy am I old )

    But was long time user V8iss10 (8.11.09.919) dabbler CE  update 16 (10.16.00.80) 

    MicroStation user since 1990 Melbourne Australia.
    click link to PM me 

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