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Laser cutting single line fonts
metrologist:
How are you going from Illustrator to your laser engraver machine code? Maybe F-Engrave will work. The "Normal" font appears to be a single stroke font and you can download some others for it.
http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave.html
Mr. Scram:
--- Quote from: MrOmnos on December 14, 2017, 02:21:28 pm ---Turns out Illustrator has something against single line fonts. I downloaded one called "Machine Tool Gothic" but when I type it in Illustrator this is what it looks like
This is what it should look like
--- End quote ---
Looks like Illustrator is trying to fill what it thinks is a polygon.
MrOmnos:
Hi, so my school has solid works and I started working on it. Any one here familiar with solid works?
What I am doing is sketching a center line at equal intervals with equal spacing and using it to align the text. I center aligned the text and then tried using letter spacing to align the text with above text but increasing letter spacing is not that precise with 10% being the lowest increment you can make. I am new to slid works so, I don't know other way to do it. How do I do it?
How do I align those letters?
MarkS:
Convert the text to paths and set the line width to 0.
MrOmnos:
Thanks guys, I figured it out. I did it in solidworks. Solid Works has a single vector font built in called OLF SimpleSans. I converted my drawing on solidworks to dxf file and then imported in Illustrator. In illustrator I edited the font paths a bit so that that holes don't fall out when cut.
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