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Morning all, Charlie,
Hoping for some more guidance, I'm trying to V carve a name sign, it is essentially doing what i want but i'm hoping there is a way to "clean up" the bottom of the letter as well, pocket the whole letter. Hopefully the pics will illustrate what I mean.
I have a scheme on how it could be done by following up this V carve with an offset milling operation with a 1% stepover, it will take another hour but it looks like it will work.
Is that the way? Thanks in advance
Hi Pluto,
There are no built-in single-line fonts in PixelCNC (aka "Hershey" fonts). However, you can use fonts you have installed in combination with the Medial-Axis Carving operation to get virtually the same effect. For instance here is the font "Aristotelica Small Caps Regular":
Here is the resulting simulated v-carving, using a V-bit cutter and the Medial-Axis Carving operation:
Does that accomplish what you're hoping to do?
Alternatively, I believe Inkscape has Hershey text which you can then export as an SVG/DXF and create a paths-layer from in PixelCNC, which can then be used as input to the Paths Carving operation, which will directly traverse the paths from the Hershey text vector.
Hope that helps. Have a good day! :]
- Charlie
