Cutting text into thin plastic

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

The usual technique is a “single-line font” — which isn’t easily done w/o special software — for a work-around see:

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)