Font Question

[BeerFizz]

Until I have built my own CNC machine, I am having some plywood parts laser cut by filner.com.

As well as the cutting, I want to have some text printed on the parts. However, Bruce at filner said the following: "Every font has an inside and an outside line and the laser will cut both rather than the fill you see that looks like a single line"

Does anyone out there have a font which is a single line?

thanks
Phil

[Ken_Shea]

Phil there was a similiar issue on this forum at this link, I did not read through it but it may offer some help/answers.

Ken
http://www.cnczone.com/showthread.ph...ight=line+font

[wjbzone]

There are a lot of fonts that are single line. This font is a single line.

I think the issue with a laser cut would be the line thickness. If the laser cuts a thin line, it might be difficult to read if the letter height is very tall. If the laser cuts 0.010" wide lines, a good character height might be only about 0.100" high.

To widen the lines you could cut more passes, (to fill the area between the inside and outside of the thicker line)

Bill.

[John S.]

Bill,
"This font is a single line" is incorrect. All the fonts on this screeen are True type and as such are composed of an inner and an outer shape. It's only the fact hat they are small that gives the inpression they are single line.
Print a letter out at a font hight of say 96 and see what the width is then.

A single line font will only be a single line at any width.

One of the best programs for generating single line fonts is one called Millwrite. This can draw single line fonts and allow you to edt then as regards kerning, spacing, angle and size and produce code that is all lines and arcs and not the thousand of small lne moves atht most CAM programs produce.

John S.

[wjbzone]

Ok, thanks John. I should have know that.

I've been using the Autocad .shx fonts. You can explode the text in Autocad and export the lines to a cnc file.

Bill.

[BeerFizz]

Thanks everyone for all the great replies.

Phil