I want to CNC text and make all my toolpaths only be a specific width or smaller for LED strips. I don’t see any settings to adjust the width of lines/text. My LED strips are 1/4 inch wide so I can just use the width of my endmill but the text is always wider than 1/4 when I make it really large.
From what I can tell this just moves the text around. I need the actual text lines to be a specific size at any size i make the text.
Please post the file which resizing doesn’t work on.
MONSTER.c2d (84 KB)
Make a rectangle the size you want. Put your text on the box. In text there is a spacing (kerniling). Be careful with small spacing your text may run together.
Do you mean that you want the width of the lines of the text to be 1/4" so as to accommodate the LED strips?
Draw geometry to measure the current width:
Then do the math to scale that up to the desired dimension —
0.25 / 0.0368 == 6.79347826
Then select the text and use the Scale tool:
to scale to the desired size:
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I did a similar experiment, but without math.
More like trial and error.
I drew a circle with a .25 diameter and then scaled the text until it was just a little bit bigger than the circle.
MONSTER.c2d (76 KB)
A different approach you might look into is to find a ‘stick’ font, where everything is defined just with lines (rather than with outlines). With such a font, you can then do a no-offset contour cut to just cut along the lines, no matter what size endmill you want to use.
Not sure how well CC or windows handles non-outline fonts, though, so you may have to experiment.
Correct! Sorry its hard for me to explain. Ive been doing just line tracing with the text as background image but it very time consuming.
was going to ask what font that was but I guess if you are tracing you don’t know the name correct?
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