Drag Bit and font

Hi Kenneth,

It won’t matter much what font you are using, the problem is what kind of toolpath is generated, as you said a contour toolpath won’t work.

You could just select the letters and use a pocketing toolpath with very small stepover, that would fill the letters, as discussed in this thread for example:

However, since CC’s pocketing toolpaths generates spiral movements, the result with a diamond drag big may or may not look nice. This is certainly the simplest approach, so worth a try anyway.

An alternative approach is to use CC’s “texture” toolpaths and play with the parameters to get the desired finish, this is briefly discussed in that other thread:

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