Hi George, I found your stick fonts on another forum. More compact is what I need.įor those of you who CNC engrave - what do you like to use? How do you do it? DXF files? Special software?
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In letters only 1/8" tall, stretches a full 1.6" in length, when it should be engravable in a 1" piece of real estate. But frustratingly, they are still way too long dimensionally. They cut just like you'd write with a pencil. Stick fonts means the letter "l" for example, is one G-code line, one straight cut, regardless of size. I found a guy who created some stick fonts for windows. This actually works OK, but what happens is, the letters tend to be a bit thick, and a line of text ends up being much longer than it should. In other words, an "O" is going to have an outer oval, and an inner oval, sometimes spaced by some tiny amount, like less than 0.001". If you want to use a fancy font, Deskengrave will allow it, but keep in mind, the fonts are not stick fonts, they are enclosed shapes. You select a font, some parameters, type a line of text, and it outputs G-code which does the job. So for simple jobs, I've been using a freeware program called "DeskEngrave."
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I refuse to pay $250 for software that I'll use once a year. Sorry for the slew of questions, but I've got some engraving work to do, and it's been a while.Įngraving software is ridiculously overpriced, IMO, for what it does.
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