Making a stacked-text sign using the new layer feature in Carbide Create (version 521+)

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

First, set the text:

Arrange as desired:

Draw things up in profile to determine how deeply things will be cut, and the necessary offset — assuming a 60 degree V endmill and 0.125" deep for each layer:

Select the text for the upper layer and offset to the outside by the necessary width:

Duplicate the lower text and set the duplicate aside:

Boolean union the outer offset geometry w/ the lower text:

Convert the duplicate text into paths and drag it into alignment w/ the unioned geometry:

Select the offset geometry for the counter for the upper text and the counter of the lower text and do Boolean intersection:

Repeat the offset for the upper text:

bring the geometry for the counter of the lower text back, select it and then the offset geometry for the outside of the upper text:

and Boolean subtract:

Clean up any unnecessary geometry:

Draw in the outer geometry for the V carving:

Inset it:

Select the geometry for each layer and assign a V carving at the appropriate depth:

and

which previews as:

Attached.

Pd.c2d (201.2 KB)