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MrOmnos:
Hi, everyone!! I am looking to cut something like below with a laser cutter.


I am using Adobe Illustrator for designing purposes but I have run into a problem. I want a single line cut as seen above but the font has an enclosing stroke like an outline which means, laser will be cutting around the letter.


But I want a single line stroke so laser will cut only once, similar to when writing with a pen. I want to technically 'write' with the laser.

I also want the letters like R, O and A to be edited such that they don't make a hole which doesn't look good. I thought I would edit the font in FontForge. 

So, I found some constant stoke fonts from here http://imajeenyus.com/computer/20150110_single_line_fonts/index.shtml



But they say, you can't be directly used to create a toolpath.

Does anyone how to create toolpath with these fonts.
Mr. Scram:
The obvious solution would be to trace the letters with lines. It'll take some work, but gives a lot of control. You won't change the fonts much due to their constant width stroke nature.
MrOmnos:
I am also thinking that but I am not frequent user of Illustrator so I am afraid I am going to mess it up. Does illustrator have any tool to do it, are there any scripts that do it. If not I guess I will have to do it myself.
Mr. Scram:

--- Quote from: MrOmnos on December 14, 2017, 09:30:37 am ---I am also thinking that but I am not frequent user of Illustrator so I am afraid I am going to mess it up. Does illustrator have any tool to do it, are there any scripts that do it. If not I guess I will have to do it myself.

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As far as I know it can trace images, but will always end up with a polygon doing so. That doesn't improve your sitation. I stand to be corrected, as I haven't worked with the very latest tools that come with Illustrator.
MrOmnos:
Is there any other design programs that I can use for this which has default single vector fonts which would remove all this hassle?
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