So I just used a 30 degree engraving bit, it’s a freaking NEEDLE and the same thing happened.
It’s these fonts. Has to be.
I’m happy, but I’m really irritated.
Steve
My last photo, was a 30 vbit and you see the reality of the cut.
I need a simple one line text. I don’t have time to create my own. A lot of the things I do are smaller. Thats why I tried the etching bit, which is a needle at the tip, and it was still wide as hell.
SO, there are MANY people who have this same issue.
Here is the best summation I have found directly from this website.
SO I need a different program, any ideas
Steve
As was previously suggested:
Hi Steve, IMO, an 1/8" bit is too big. I did it with advanced V-carve and a 60 degree bit with no problem. You mention an empty tool path, but as others have said you show a tool path. Something to think about - Do you have a copy of the image imbedded in your project? I have run into similar issues only to find I had a duplicate set of lines/text.
If we ungroup the text, we see that it is less the 3/8" tall:
Converting it to Arial (so as to avoid the issue of serifs and so forth) and also making both words Regular (so as to get a more consistent stroke width):
we find that the smallest/narrowest section is ~0.0133 inches, or a bit more than half of a millimeter:
(it may be that there is some general rule that the tool used for text should be ~1/12th the height…)
If you can source a suitable tool at that size and work up feeds and speeds for it, then it should work to:
Offset to the inside by a bit less than ~0.3mm:
Less because:
0.29mm works:
and then assign a No Offset Contour toolpath to this w/ a hypothetical 0.5mm tool:
which previews as:
Looks really nice. !
Steve
So I bought the Vetric cut 2d program. Once I learn it better it has the capability for single line text, just not with vbit. So a 16th or 1/8th, but that SHOULD solve this. I’ll update when I have time to sit down and learn that software better.
How are you going to cut text of this size:
with a tool which dwarfs the fine features of the text:
This might be sort of workable with a 1/32" tool as shown above:
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