How To Add More Fonts To Fusion 360 - Tutorial -

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[@wolfsfarm7667]

Hi Lars, you do not need to copy, search for the font folder on C: and paste it. Just do a right click on the font and you will see at position 4 from the top the command "install". Click it and everything is done ;-) Best regards from Germany - Wolfgang

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Wolfs Farm Thank you for watching! AND for the great advice! You need to start a livestream on windows commands :-) I have a lot to learn

[@ayushtyagi9185]

Thank you for sharing this, I am a freelancer and my client wanted a specific font, and it was not there in Fusion360. But now, I added it by watching your video. Thank you sir.

[@daryncook]

fast forward to 9:00 and save yourself some time.

[@sean7193]

skip to 7:10 your welcome.

[@krayziekris]

Appreciated mate. I would have hated to watch 7 minutes to realize this was only for Windows

[@lucrems1199]

You can also right click on the TTF file and click "Install" to install the font. Much easier and a lot faster than copy/paste.

[@lucrems1199]

I just converted a TTF font to OTF to add it to my fusion 360. Works fine, the font is available in Fusion but once used as Sketch I cannot extrude it to make it 3D. I get an error. A simple error without any meaning or explanation. Any advice?

[@mrb.5610]

Lars - you're my man ! Your fix did just the job !! Thanks !!!

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome. Thank you for watching

[@Ranek61]

Man I have been googling for a few days now on adding some text to a fusion 360 file and no matter where I looked nothing gave me an answer. This was quick and easy way to get it to work. Asian big font files was just a nightmare for me for there was little information. Most pointed to using .shx files but the ones for the language (wh) were all wrong. This works for it perfectly, thank you.

[@protogeorge8604]

Thx Lars & thx Autodesk for a fantastic series. I've learned a lot that has really helped me do my job. The presentation is informative & more importantly easy to watch/ keep my attention. One of the many reasons I'm a Fusion 360 fan!

[@Chlorate299]

6:35 if you want to get to the part where he adds a font to Fusion...

[@EFLO3D]

Thank you

[@Phil_Lie]

Thank you soooo much!!! Regards from Hamburg, Germany ;)

[@dank2816]

For any Mac users you can also do this by adding the font through the font book app at least for Big Sur. Do everything the same but when it comes to adding the font go to the font book app, hit the plus at the top, add your file, restart fusion, and your font should appear. :)

[@stpeter7432]

Thanks for the tips, Lars - never thought of restarting (D'oh!). Worked a treat!

[@geraldoorlando808]

Thanks a lot. A small detail that help us a lot!!!

[@ChinaAl]

Hello. I'm on Mac and glad I found you. I am printing heart boxes for my Valentine day gifts. I wanted to personalize hem with a script font. Maybe 2 mm high that I can superglue to the top of the box. I thought that would be cool and being script I wouldn't have to mess with individual letters. Thanks for the tutorial. I already have script fonts but it's been a while since I worked with Fusion 360.

[@hermanman8093]

Very Nice video, thank you from Germany :)

[@Gallardo6669]

OMG, it worked as an open don't type. T H A N K you Soo much Lars!!!!!

[@bobsturdevant5317]

Thanks as always. Perfect timing because I have a laser project coming up next week and want to look around for some unique fonts.

[@cadcamstuff]

That is awesome to hear bob sturdevant .Thank you for watching the videos

[@elvicentefernandez]

If someone in the street ask you for directions, instead of saying 3 blocks ahead, you will give the person a 30 minute talk on how to get 3 blocks ahead, I hope you get the message.

[@duanecrider]

This didn't work for me. I initially had the problem of the TTF not showing up. Converted it to OTF. It then showed up, but when I went to extrude the text, I got a "Tool Body Creation Failed". I eventually got this to work by editing the text in Inkscape with the correct font, ran "object to path" with the text selected and then saved as an SVG. I was then able to import and extrude/cut the text. A lot more complicated than I'd like, but at least I was able to get it to work at all.

[@ML-mk5mw]

Ob Mac you have to double click the font file and a installation window pops up. That easy :-) Great job - Michael from Germany

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi M L Thank you for watching! I am such a Mac noob :-)

[@ML-mk5mw]

A Mac is JUST working..... :-)

[@trialnterror]

Ok so I got them imported but when I go to extrude fusion throws an error! TOOL BODY CREATION FAILED? scratching head. Lars many people below have this issue! Do you know the fix?

[@DesignAutomationStudio]

Having the same problem, did you ever figure out the problem with yours?

[@aakankshaagrawal2454]

@@DesignAutomationStudio same problem

[@DesignAutomationStudio]

@@aakankshaagrawal2454 there's no fix for it basically you just have to try a different file for the font. My workaround is making the labels in illustrator and then importing as .dxf into sketch

[@fabricioclariano]

THAAAAANKS from Brazil my friend!

[@olik136]

I can't extrude 99% of all fonts I have tested...Arial works but that's about it. EVEN the WALTOGRAPH used in the video will not extrude...

[@metallicaandchimaira]

You have to right click and hit explode text

[@oliverwoelfel2133]

Did you ever post that video you were talking about making in this live stream? If you did please post a link.

[@fiskerrubberduck5920]

Thanks it was realy useful

[@joem3968]

Awsome Lars sorry i missed the live stream. Its hard to get up at 5am in the morning in winter maybe tomorrow great show

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Joe M Thank you for watching! I will not blame anyone for not getting up at 5 :-)

[@venomdefense316]

Hello from 2023 - Still works!

[@cadcamstuff]

Awesome!! Glad it still works!!

[@dalichannel5320]

Thank you! You really helped me!

[@emmaandlloydbreeze7469]

Thanks for this video :) Very useful video

[@thomasheisler]

the one step no one ever told me about

[@daviecrawford3849]

ok, ive done all that and it works, but i cannoy extrude or trace the font !

[@jcdock]

My font's are showing up in Fusion even after I have closed and reopened it (even tried restarting my pc) I'm on win10

[@octojim1]

Thanks, Lars, I added and converted as you suggested, and hey ho the font appeared in Fusion. but did not extrude or explode. found a video by welbot that said suggested then going back into fontconverter and converting back into TT font. I did this but the fonts do not show up in Fusion again. then tried importing them as SVG from Inkscape, but got an error. The font is Clarity Gothic SF. If anyone else has solved this it would be good to know.

[@chrispit46]

Thanks,nice and easy to follow.

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you Chris pit

[@CyberMonkey3D]

Anyone else have problems with the font on mac? I can get the font to install and show up after installing and restarting Fusion 360. When you select the font, it just uses the standard font.. almost like its unreadable.

[@ctpctp]

I have several fonts installed on my system and accessible to other applications that do not show up in the list of available fonts in Fusion. Anyone got any suggestion about that?

[@zfotoguy71]

did you ever figure out how to fix this? I have the same problem

[@rbrpulling]

Thanks Lars! Had the same problem.

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome :-) Thank you for watching!

[@ypsonar]

Love you sir . . . Thanks . . . Very knowledgeble

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you 👍😊

[@ypsonar]

@@cadcamstuff After add Hindi font Not going to extrude , showing " Inconsistent edge face relationship" Please guide if you resolve this problem

[@CR4FTVR]

AMAZING LIFE SAVER

[@DocMicha]

Short live Stream, long story. Some fonts can not be extruded, even if you can find them in the font list. Its a pitty, but I know a walk around, if you write the letters in another program and export them as svg-file (e.g. with inkscape). Than you can extrude the font.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi DocM Thank you for watching! I don't know all the stuff happen in the background, but Fusion still need to be able to convert it into a solid. Yes, you can always convert the font into something more readable, like svg :-) Thank you

[@ovidiuje429]

Updated 2023, using the OTF files worked for me, extrude does not work using TTF

[@waltewhitesPhD]

"Free Sixty"...do you have the 360 version? Im told they are not backwards compatible with each other. I joke. Thank you for this video. I needed to create a steel plate for a project and this nailed what I needed.

[@sKreenFlix]

thank you very much man!

[@aly-tek7190]

Great tip, cheers Lars :)

[@cadcamstuff]

Thank you ALY-TEK

[@jasondagenais5701]

Great work as always Lars - thanks for the post. Can you comment how to fix when certain fonts don't display properly? I'm on a mac (i know you're pc, but I suspect this is universal), and I'm trying to model a coffee cup for my wife using a Rae Dunn font - I can install the font (very similar work flow to pc), however when I pick it from the font menu, it shows and displays on screen as Arial. Why is this? Can it be fixed?

[@samaraalbuquerque8458]

Same problem :(

[@jasondagenais7736]

Samara Albuquerque if you are on Mac, hold down the ‘option’ key while clicking ‘go’ on the top screen ribbon of finder- that will pop up the ‘Library’ in the list. Choose it, and open the font folder within the Library. If you drag and drop any of your ttf or otf font files into that folder, and restart fusion, it should work.

[@samaraalbuquerque8458]

@@jasondagenais7736 Thanks!

[@MarcoPelletier-m3f]

Thanks to you Lars

[@rizalmnoor]

Hi, thanks for the info. I have a trouble on generating CAM engrave on that fonts. Any input?

[@henriquerodrigues4107]

Thank you very much!!!

[@garagehabit]

How can I letter / write on an existing DXF file to be cut out on my plasma cutter ?

[@itsnotlevel2]

You can double click any ttf file in windows and mac and it will install it for you.... :-/ 🙂

[@jamesgillis8122]

15 minutes of bullshit, should be a 30 second video.

[@pepperoni-prepper]

i was just about to post the same comment

[@joaopaulofeifer1751]

tks my brother, nice video . Helped me a lot !!

[@claudiofrehner8820]

Amazing Thanks 🙏

[@FuturePerfectContinuous]

i´ve problems to extrude new imported fonts (otf & ttf). Error: Tool body creation failed. How can i fix it? Please help me :)

[@wera1704]

Same problem, did you found anything on how to fix it?

[@FuturePerfectContinuous]

@@wera1704 not directly. I downloaded some more fonts and with 2 or 3 it worked.

[@TridStudio]

Thank you

[@michaelhartjen3214]

Video is waaaaaaay toooooo looooooong.. You could have said the whole thing in 10 seconds

[@SolarWebsite]

Gotta feed the algorithm .... YT doesn't realise that is going to be its own downfall

[@CCrawfordR]

Thank you!

[@cadcamstuff]

You are so very welcome, Craig!

[@welbot]

I just did a video about this stuff last week :) So annoying that mot OTF files don't work. I've found conversions often don't fix the issue either. Perhaps I need to try with more, to see if I can figure out if it's a foreign language thing, but I couldn't get conversions to work on the ones I tried.

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi welbot Thank you for watching! This was my first time with the need of adding other fonts into fusion. Not really sure what happens in the background when converting this stuff

[@welbot]

Yeah me either. I'm actually surprised you were able to get an OTF working, while a TTF wouldn't. I was trying to get a Japanese font to work, but it was OTF, and I did some digging in the Fusion support site, and there was something saying OTF didn't work at all, so then I went to investigate converting. Had no luck with the one I was using, but luckily I ended up finding a TTF version of it that worked :) Always great to see your experiences with things though, even when I do know about them already! I often still pick up tips I didn't think of or wasn't aware of :) So weird that we both decided to cover the topic so close together! hahahah

[@zeropoint-1041]

can you do a vid on text on a coin surface, as in wrapped around the center

[@oceanic8424]

Hi Lars, Greetings from Canada. I am curious, what is that device behind you on the wall, and who makes it?

[@ppolleunus]

macOS: Fusion 360 doesn't handle correctly fonts installed in a sub-folder (e.g. ~/Library/Fonts/MyFontsGroup/FontName.otf). It works with all other programs. Fusion 360 finds it (as it's in the list) but the font style is not applied to the text (not rendered).

[@chadmullane6610]

Hello Lars, What Font are you using the Autodesk sign you showed in the video? Thank you.

[@MR.KNOWITALL1982]

Lars I hope this question makes sense-when choosing a font Is there a way to scroll through the fonts and have it update on your model instead of clicking each font to see the change on the model? Thanks

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi The Quiet Mechanic Thank you for watching! I wish there was. That would be a cool feature!!! forums.autodesk.com/t5/fusion-360-ideastation/idb-p/125 Best, Lars

[@MR.KNOWITALL1982]

me too! Thank you Sir:)

[@ahmadsamir1031]

now i know how small Denmark is.... thank you

[@Kevin15673]

you can also just double click on the font file and press "install" lol

[@JackFehn-mi3vj]

I have a Font that I loaded into my windows "Font Folder" and i am using it in Fusion called "Sweetness" I can add it to my fusion drawing, but I am unable to extrude it. any thoughts.

[@JackFehn-mi3vj]

Sorry, the full name is "Sweetness Script Regular"

[@marekszczesny6193]

I have a problem with extracting a font converter or saving dfx ... any ideas?

[@ThirdPer3on]

Easy on windows. Download font. Unzip - right click on the font and click install. Restart Fusion.

[@JackFehn-mi3vj]

Lars, I loaded a Font named "Sweetness Script" OTF, then opened Fusion, found the font, added the Letter "L" I was unable to to Push Pull. any thoughts? I am able to work with perloaded Fonts, but not with fonts I add later.

[@lifeoftoni9991]

thank bro

[@DoubleDee2000]

Wenn ich die convertirte Schriftart in meinen Fontordner Kopierne will kommt eine Fehlermeldung das die Schrift bereits existiert! Sie ist schon im ttf Format installiert aber nicht im otf Format. Wenn ich dann erstetzen auswähle kann windows die otf nicht öffnen. An welchen Einstellungen kann das liegen?

[@Petrez186]

Hi Lars, thank you for this video. I have a problem. I did all the same as you with font "Windsong". I converted the font from ttf to oft. When I wanted to extrude, it was written "Tool body creation failed. Please what I did bad? Is possible that this font is not suitable for Fusion? Thank you. Petr

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Petr Řezníček Thank you for watching! It could be. For fusion to extrude it, it still have to be able to turn it into a solid. You could go into the patch workspace and see if you could do it as a surface and then stitch it back together

[@flavianojose8423]

Hey there, hope you are great, well im trying to use the font MS33558 with the extension .ttf fusion does not recognize, however if i try to use the same font with .otf extention, fusion does recognize the font but i am not able to extrude the font neither out or in to engrave to the object surface. Please any help?

[@m0rzan629]

Try to select the text, click explode text and than extrude. Works for me in with the MS33558 .ttf :)

[@flavianojose8423]

@@m0rzan629 before o have done that, but never worked, I have try it today and it did work. However for this to work when trying to explode text it did first converted to Arial, there after to MS 33558. I really don't know how many type of them does exist, but I am sure the behave different with the videos a see in KZbin

[@k2OS]

Don't want to spend time searching for where windows keeps the font-files? Rightclick your unzipped font-file -> install. Done. You're welcome :) (thanks for the videoes)

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi k2OS Thank you for watching! Yes, I need a livestream on Windows functions :-) Thank you

[@Chovav14]

Double click (Left) make the job faster then Right click>>>Install

[@johngallo2390]

Is the haas controller just for simulation or do you have a cnc in you garage

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi John, it is just for looking good in videos :-) I do have a Stepcraft in the shop, but no Haas

[@scanners99]

El mejor lejos,..............

[@nigelkelseycouzens8266]

Hi Lars my birthday today 54 all the way

[@cadcamstuff]

Happy belated birthday!!

[@elve44]

Good tutorial but that length for nothing

[@trisectdevelopment]

Går ud fra at du oprindelig kommer fra Danmark. Hvor fra i Danmark kommer du Lars?

[@cadcamstuff]

Fra Greve Strand :-) men har levet her de sidste 19 aar

[@kidlifecrysis4203]

otf does not work for extrusion

[@ro0ter]

such much very many nonsense for "1. install font.... 2. restart fusion".... I sure bet this video is not sponsored by autodesk.........

[@Trancelebration]

How to add more single line engraving fonts ?

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Przemek Potyra Thank you for watching! I am not sure you can.. Hmm, good question

[@martrmbn]

Tutorial starts at 7:37

[@Gallardo6669]

Lars, importing the raceway font worked but I can't extrude it. Pls help!

[@tpax3p]

I have same problem. Installed the font and I cant extrude it

[@tpax3p]

Ok I found out my problem) So when I typed I use all capital. And then extrude didnt work for me. Same error as yours. When no capitals, all good)

[@Gallardo6669]

@@tpax3p cool, will try asap. Thx!!!!

[@aakankshaagrawal2454]

@@Gallardo6669 did it work?

[@Gallardo6669]

@@aakankshaagrawal2454 thx for asking: no. I could import it but can't extrude, doesn't matter if capital or not 🤔

[@saeed6811]

Having trouble extruding Arabic fonts. Some error occurs. Any idea?

[@ypsonar]

Same problem to me after add Hindi font Not going to extrude , showing " Inconsistent edge face relationship" Please guide if you resolve this problem

[@alexandreaubin4736]

This worked for me... Right clic on your sketch, explode text and then extrude.

[@dool1002]

I had the same problem last year when trying out some new font. It wouldn’t let me extrude nor explode the text. I found a workaround though. I ended up creating an svg file using Inkscape and then imported it onto fusion 360.

[@vesarantasalo5697]

Hello

[@cadcamstuff]

Hello, Vesa

[@tarcisiobatista5595]

3:40

[@quintongroves1239]

too much talking

[@akamai3125]

he's live streaming so you can't really blame him

[@derekgreig6905]

Windows 10 you just right click the TTF then hit install. Loose the annoying role playing I would have liked the video.

[@MrLegacy36]

Please get to the point

[@cadcamstuff]

Ha ha. That is really hard for me. Ask my wife

[@nickijensen995]

Godt arbejde LARS... hvad hedder din facebook. :)

[@cadcamstuff]

Hi Nicki, @Mrlarschristensen but I have to admit that I'm not active there in the moment

[@nickijensen995]

@@cadcamstuff Hej lars. Når jeg skriver på dansk. Så tror jeg godt du kan svare på dansk ;) jamen, så må vi se og give dig et spark i røven.. Super videoer. Tak for at dele din viden med os andre.. :)

[@brynparrott7361]

Waaay too much preamble. Just get to the topic ?!!!

[@stocky9218]

It was a live stream dude

[@Minh_Nguyen24]

dude is super anoying!

[@mikereliford55]

For real