Font for inside and outside CNCing: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 12:50, 2012 December 13

Need to figure out how to get a font (or other shape) to CNC properly inside and out to fit into itself, i.e. method to know that shape has no radius smaller than the bit.

testing Hershey Text - http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/hershey-text-an-inkscape-extension-for-engraving-fonts/
- that provides nice single line engraving text, to a point solves the font's radius problem, but not the outside one...

make hersheyfont
make line thicknes = bit * 2.1 (2 to be exact, add .1 to have some space)
use rounded joins and caps
stroke to path
new path strokestyle, round join and cap, width of bit
fix distances of letters
redo stroke to path

dead ends

downloaded CamBam to see if it can do such things

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 Need to figure out how to get a font (or other shape) to CNC properly inside and out to fit into itself, i.e. method to know that shape has no radius smaller than the bit.
-* downloaded CamBam to see if it can do such things
 * testing Hershey Text - http://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/hershey-text-an-inkscape-extension-for-engraving-fonts/
 ** that provides nice single line engraving text, to a point solves the font's radius problem, but not the outside one...
+* make hersheyfont
+* make line thicknes = bit * 2.1 (2 to be exact, add .1 to have some space)
+* use rounded joins and caps
+* stroke to path
+* new path strokestyle, round join and cap, width of bit
+* fix distances of letters
+* redo stroke to path
+== dead ends ==
+* downloaded CamBam to see if it can do such things
 ==File Location==