Letter carving or v carve

[mhotchin (Michael Hotchin)]

@MadHatter

If you use the 1/8" bit and just pocket the letters, they will have 1/16" radius rounded inside corners.

If you’d like to see what it would look like, you can modifiy your text to see what a 1/8" mill would actually cut:

Chamfer tight letters

How to convert a shape into the perimeter that actually gets carved by a tool of a given diameter. [image] For text, you’ll need to Convert to curves. The first step is you need to separate the Outside cuts from the Inside cuts. In this case, the only Inside cut is the center of the ‘e’. Here are the Outside cuts: [image] Now offset by the radius of the tool. For outside cuts, offset Outside, Inside cuts offset Inside. This basically creates the path that the center of the tool follows…

Since you are pocketing, the majority of the text is considered inside cuts.