Hello is there a faster way so line up the letters to a circle I find it quite cumbersome manually adjusting the radius and moving the letters I was just curious if there’s a quicker way that I could use I do a lot of signs like this.
Thanks
It is trivial to do this in a design software and if you are doing it frequently, you may find it worth investing some time in learning some basic design software. This is the sort of process used for Affinity Designer. It is good software but the principle will apply to all software that can design vector images.
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I will note that this can go much faster if you set up the circle center to be at an intersection of a coarse grid.
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Inkscape (freeware) also has this function. I wouldn’t describe putting text on a path with it as trivial, but there are many tutorials.
Inkscape download: https://inkscape.en.softonic.com/
Text on path tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZZs5W01ecA
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Horses for courses eh? My take was any formal software of the Illustrator or Affinity type of vector design software makes the task trivial compared with using Carbide Create. @WillAdams’s point about where you set the centre of the circle was well made. Inkscape is a free software and if that is all you have access to, it will certainly do the job required. I see Inkscape in the same way that I view the GIMP if one needed a bitmap editor. It is not Photoshop but you can cobble together many of the Photoshop functions with it.
The Affinity Designer tutorial linked aboved shows the process is entirely trivial. Additionally the user needs to be aware that Carbide Motion expects the saved .svg design to be exported from any design software at 96dpi. Even though this is not a normal requirement for vector images, which are actually resolution independent, the Carbide Motion software will not honour the measurements created in any design package (notwithstanding Carbide Create of course) unless the design is saved at 96dpi.
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Affinity Designer is 1/2 off right now, inexpensive divided by two.
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Affinity was/is also offering 6 months free trial. If you like it you can buy it. I have all 3 of the Affinity products, Photo, Designer and Publisher. I really dont use the Publisher but all it really does is integrate Photo and Designer for making things like brochures and other types of documents.
I use the Affinity Designer to make SVG files for the Shapeoko. I use the Affinity Photo to edit photos for the photo club I am in but just generally editing photography. Compared to Adobe the Affinity software is a steal. You buy it and you own it. I started with Affinity 1.0 and upgraded to 2.xxx free. It is not cloud based and it is installed locally and not in the cloud. The monthly subscription fees from Adobe have gotten ridicilious. Recently Canva bought Affinity (Serif) so eventually they may integrate Affinity to the Canva online applications. Canva.com is an online design application for making just about anything you want. There is a free service but you can also pay to do more extensive design, share and print you designs.