Colorcore Challenges workholding/font issues/fuzzies/varying Thickness

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

I’d suggest a small single flute tool such as:

#282Z 2mm Single Flute ZrN

rather than trying to balance the different surface speeds of the angles of a V tool in plastic.

Depending on the size of your text you may be able to use a technique such as:

Alternatives to single-line fonts

One work-around for a single-stroke font is to inset the text. Given a text in a font which is close to being mono-line: [image] convert the text to curves: [image] Draw in geometry at the narrowest point: [image] And then inset: [image] [image] Apply [image] and then apply a No Offset Contour toolpath: [image] [image] Attached as a v7 file carbide3d_single_stroke_alternative.c2d (140 KB)