Which Celtic Fonts Style should I choose?

[Mountaincraft]

Do I buy the 'outline' style?


The 'Filled' Style?


Or the 'Inverse' Style?



Which is best for V Carving?

What about Engraving?

I imagine if I got the filled or inverse, it would be fairly easy to invert the artwork in illustrator, but not so easy with the outline...

[br1]

You can make the filled and inverse style from the outline pattern. Or the outline style from the filled style, you could invert the colors of the outline one to make it a filled one.

[Mountaincraft]

You can make the filled and inverse style from the outline pattern. Or the outline style from the filled style, with VCP you could use any of them to make all three. Just a thought.

Seems like that would be a lot of work.. You'd have to go in and fill every vector by individually clicking on it.. 17 individual patterns (fills) to do on just the simple example (if I counted right), and if you have a string of dozens or even several hundred of them, that would be pretty tedious..

Or is there some other way that I'm missing?

[br1]

You make a good point, I didnt realise they were already vector format, I could be done in VCP, but if you were doing a large project I see your point.

[Mountaincraft]

Here's the website for the fonts so you can see how they work.. You type the various elements of the font out how you want to make the larger graphic....

Celtic Fonts

[br1]

Thats kind of neat, I guess I should have googled it before opening my mouth. That is an absolute wallet grabber, I thought they were just a image file. Now I understand.

[CarveOne]

I have just started messing with the Celtic fonts lately after getting them six months or so ago. In Vcarve Pro you will find the installed Celtic Knots fonts in the Text tool font list. Just type in the characters you want, apply, and the vectors appear in the work area of VCP. You can then scale them as needed to fit your project. The outline version of the font did not give me the option to cut inside or outside of the vector if the Vcarve tool is used. It will only go as deep as the vector spacings allow depending on a 60 or 90 degree V cutter profile.

I tried the 3D version with good results but would like to make it go a little deeper. I suppose I could "fudge a little" with the zero setter to offset it deeper. Or just forget to zero it again.

I bought the full set of Celtic Knots. Didn't have any need of the charted fonts. The triangle knots look interesting so I got those when they came out later as the dxf CAD version.

CarveOne

[Mountaincraft]

I was thinking of getting the

Machine Embroidery / CNC Discount Set $44
(scroll down the page to the package deals)

But am going back and forth between just getting a single font for now.. or a single font and the 3rd graphics pack.. spending a little less money that way...

It comes with the filled font..


Seems like the filled or the inverted font would be the logical choice, but I don't know if one is better than the other...

Is there a document anywhere that describes how to make graphics for V Carve? ie, that gives the rules as to how it behaves or thinks?