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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…

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Could use some guidance on creating a carve

To do this using the Advanced V carve features it’s much the same, just a bit simpler: Set the texts and duplicate them and set the duplicates aside in case a reference is needed: [image] draw up the V carving geometry in profile to see how things will cut: [image] and offset the top geometry by that distance: [image] [image] Boolean union w/ the outside geometry for the lower layer: [image] [image] Where geometry has been lost, bring back the geometry which was used by repeatin…