Glossary entry

Portuguese term or phrase:

normografia

English translation:

(font) resizing

Added to glossary by Muriel Vasconcellos
Nov 5, 2010 03:27
13 yrs ago
Portuguese term

normografia

Portuguese to English Tech/Engineering Engineering (general) Lettering on AutoCAD drawings
As I indicated above, this is about the lettering on AutoCAD drawings. From the context, I'm guessing that this has to do with scaling the fonts, but I couldn't find anything very convincing on the Internet. (From what I know of AutoCAD, I'm not aware of any function that allows for automatic rescaling of fonts.)

A fim de que não seja perdida a legibilidade das informações, por efeito da redução, a normografia deve ser previamente estudada. Os originais, em formato A1, em papel poliéster e em arquivo magnético, serão entregues ao Cliente na ocasião;
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4 (fonts) resizing
3 nomography

Discussion

Muriel Vasconcellos (asker) Nov 6, 2010:
@Filippe Your comment does help: it confirms that the text is about the lettering, not the rest of the information, and that the word is not a typo in Portuguese. I asked my AutoCAD teacher, and she confirmed that there is no way to automatically scale up the lettering. Perhaps the text is simply talking about being careful to keep the size of the letters in mind so that they are legible. What do you think?
I don't get it A "normógrafo" is what is known in English as a lettering set—a device roughly similar to an Autopen or check-signing machine, used with a set of lettering templates of various sizes. They were actually rendered obsolete by AutoCAD; how are they relevant here? Will this be done by hand?
Muriel Vasconcellos (asker) Nov 5, 2010:
Correction I was thinking this just applied to the lettering, but on re-reading, I realize it has to do with enhancing all the information.

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(fonts) resizing

I found this reference about the term: Como o SANCAD - Módulo ESG gera os arquivos de resultados e o AutoCAD pode importá-lo para o desenho, a normografia é automatizada
In othe words, the imported font is resized (automatically) by using the SANCAD's ESG module.
http://www.etg.ufmg.br/tim2/sancad-manual.doc
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nomography

the graphical representation of mathematical relationships or laws...
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