What is the best way to do connected letters/1 peice words? My wife wants me to make this and I know I can do it but will likely make it much harder than it has to be!
Also any ideas on what font this is?
Oh yeah I have Aspire - is this an option? At work thinking about this and don’t have my laptop.
You could draw it out on paper, take a picture, bring it in to inkscape to create an svg, then use the svg in create.
Or just overlay the letters in inkscape, manually. I think you can do this, I’m still not well versed in inkscape. Not really sure on the font.
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Looks like hand lettering.
If you used a font, you could achieve a similar effect by:
- distorting / scaling letters
- overlaying them so that they connect
- Boolean union
There’s a bit of a discussion of some of that sort of thing in: Could use some guidance on creating a carve
and be sure to see: http://docs.carbide3d.com/assembly/carbidecreate/video-tutorials/#boolean-operations
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If you have a font that you like, you can use the text tool in Aspire to create each letter as a separate vector. Stretch/Skew/Rotate as desired and move each letter into position. Finally, use the scissors tool to cut the vector segments that are inside your overlapping areas; be sure the “connect vectors” option (or whatever its called) is checked in the scissors tool.
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Quick and dirty attempt at it https://drive.google.com/open?id=174enOqf6jwRcCGXrEro3sQJnyS1WdVmq
Otherwise, Mother’s Touches Font is kinda close but you’ll have to do some editing. https://www.dafont.com/mother-s-touches.font?fpp=100&text=EXPLORE
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That looks great Stephen!! Thank you!!
This forum is awesome - Thank you all for the help!!
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Check out the APP, WhatTheFont at:
It supposedly will supply the font name OR give you the closest font to whatever is shown.
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Also with Aspire you can take a picture, import it, trace it, scale the vectors to a certain size, then “profile tool path”, the vectors.
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Very ez to do in Inkscape with a PATH - Path union function
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