What would cause jagged text? Carving on foam with S5Pro using 1/8" bit on a pocketed toolpath. All other circles, lines and contours look great only the text is jagged. Sometimes it carves the text perfect, other times it looks like the pic. It’s happening on multiple pieces of foam, again only the text, all other lines look great. Font was downloaded from the internet. I might add that in Carbide Create, if I zoom in when in Simulation, the text looks somewhat jagged. But that doesn’t account for the times it carves perfectly.
Can you determine if the good / bad cutting is related to the direction the cutter is moving, i.e. conventional vs. climb milling?
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Ok, so I did another test with a different font, same issue. So then I converted the text to curves and it carved perfectly. Must be something with carbide create, going to reload it tomorrow. See pics.
There are 3 possible ways for text to be represented:
- as Text
- as Curves (after initially being convert to Curves, see: Merging Script Fonts in Carbide Create V6 )
(note that how these curves are generated will vary based on whether the font used was represented by Quadratic B-splines (usually TrueType fonts), or Bézier curves (usually OpenType) — the unnecessary points in the representation shown indicate that it was made up of Quadratic B-splines)
- as Polylines (this will be the result of a Boolean operation in current versions of Carbide Create)
Creating a file which has each such on a separate layer:
and creating toolpaths each of which uses the geometry from a matching layer:
zooming in we can see that there is a differentiation in how the 2D toolpath previews are rendered:
which seems to be in how text is represented, with the Curve and Polyline toolpaths 2D previews aligning exactly:
Writing out a separate file for each toolpath we see:
that the text version does use fewer G-code movement commands, so presumably would have a coarser representation, which argues that for verisimilitude one should at least convert to paths.
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