Mirrored text in SE draft?

[duncanbourne]

Hi all,

Anybody know how to produce mirrored text in SE draft? I can't find any options to mirror it, using the mirror command mirrors the text box but not it's contents, and making it a symbol and mirroring that produces some very strange results.

There must be some way of producing backwards text in draft surely?

Best Regards

Duncan

 

[Edgeomatic]

Text in Draft has always been a weak point of SE,
I was able to mirror it in draft, but it's a bit like herding cats!
The only way I can see to do it reliably is to make a Text Profile
in a sketch from a Part file, copy and paste it into your draft file.
From there you can mirror it, but of course it is no longer text, just geometry.

 

[duncanbourne]

Thanks for that, it certainly works but of course you get the text as an unfilled outline so if you want filled text you need to hatch each letter :-/

The only other way I can think of is to mirror a font in Fontographer, and make a new mirrored ttf.

Rather annoying that this doesn't work anyway though, after paying so much for SE in the first place!

Duncan