My Text on Text Looks Terrible

[flyinglass (Randi Wood)]

My first try at text on text. I thought I had it all done correctly until I looked at the simulation!
I stacked the text and did a union, then put a copy of the top text over that and did pocket tool paths. I don’t know what happened. I tried 2 different fonts for the bottom text and they both look very bad.
Text on Text Practice.c2d (208 KB)

[Zman (MICHAEL ZEMANEK)]

You didn’t cut the top first.

See if this is what you needed.

Text on Text Practice.c2d (296 KB)

[flyinglass (Randi Wood)]

Do you mean cut the pocket around the top word first? I just tried that and it’s no better.

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

Cutting text as a pocket does not really yield good results with most fonts/sizes of type/tool.

Instead, cut as an Advanced V carving, see:

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

The folks at Carbide3D announced a new beta feature in Carbide Create: Layers. [PXL_20210515_155150934] This tutorial gives this new feature a spin using the beta version, to make a stacked-text sign. I’ll try to make this an entry-level tutorial (screenshots for every small step) for those who are relatively new to CNC and want to make their own stack text signs. For the example I’ll stack “your” on top of “text here”… since that’s boring in general you should replace that with the text you…

and:

Could use some guidance on creating a carve

Here is another example, done on request from support: [image] which is to be cut to: Material is .759" Lower text .2" from top flat end mill Upper text .1 from top. 60 or 90 v

[Tod1d (Tod (with 1 'd'))]

The gaps are too small for that size tool. Either cut as an Advanced V-carve as Will suggested, or step down to a 1/32" tool.

Text on Text Practice V3.c2d (360 KB)

[flyinglass (Randi Wood)]

1/32, wow. Would that actually work in a cnc? I will try the AVC; I think I should have thought of that, but this just seemed so straight forward. I’m beginning to realize that nothing to do with cnc is!
All the help from the forum is really amazing.
Thank you so much.

[MindlessCorpse]

@flyinglass

1/32, wow. Would that actually work in a cnc?

.063 is a good one for detail, and yes it works well in a cnc, just very slow process.
I have used as small as 0.25mm/radius.