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** that provides nice single line engraving text, to a point solves the font's radius problem, but not the outside one... | ** that provides nice single line engraving text, to a point solves the font's radius problem, but not the outside one... | ||
* make | ==Workflow== | ||
* | * make line text (find better text maker?) | ||
* use rounded joins and caps | ** Extensions, render, hershey text | ||
** tweak shapes | |||
* stroke style | |||
** line thickness = bit * 2.1 (2 to be exact, add .1 to have some space) | |||
** use rounded joins and caps | |||
* scale/tweak so there are gaps where need to be | |||
* stroke to path | * stroke to path | ||
* fill none, stroke yes | |||
* new path strokestyle, round join and cap, width of bit | * new path strokestyle, round join and cap, width of bit | ||
* fix distances of letters | * fix distances of letters | ||
Revision as of 13:28, 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...
Workflow
- make line text (find better text maker?)
- Extensions, render, hershey text
- tweak shapes
- stroke style
- line thickness = bit * 2.1 (2 to be exact, add .1 to have some space)
- use rounded joins and caps
- scale/tweak so there are gaps where need to be
- stroke to path
- fill none, stroke yes
- new path strokestyle, round join and cap, width of bit
- fix distances of letters
- redo stroke to path
- break apart, delete, recombine as necessary
- fix/tweak
dead ends
- downloaded CamBam to see if it can do such things