![]() Not sure if that's the font itself, or some other issue that I'm just not familiar enough with QCAD to solve. It was well within the Epilog driver limits of size for vectoring but didn't vector, just raster. Tried pushing the "line weight" way down, since it appears to alter the line thickness. I tried a few test runs, it didn't work to vector. This looked really promising, and it was in keeping with the original criteria for the post. Not sure if it will engrave as a vector font as my machine is out in the cold shop and I would normally use VCarve Pro to test, but its not on this laptop. Exported as a SVG instead of DXF to see and it went right into Corel X6. I just used QCAD and the CourierCAD font one of the single line fonts that came with it, sure looks like single line to me. It has single line fonts as well as the AutoCAD LT 2008 package. They have two versions the limited one called the trial or community software and the Pro version which I purchased and I think it was $37 USD. I downloaded and tried LibreCAD for maybe an hour or so and ended up with QCAD. One of the other tricky parts has been identifying which fonts are "stick fonts", people referencing them aren't calling them single-stroke fonts, but searching for it hasn't brought up a list of the ones that supposedly are. I'm trying LibreCAD at the moment, so far the fonts tested aren't vectoring and the process of creating objects and such isn't native to my way of thinking. If AutoCAD is under the same free licensing for students and small cap businesses, it could work out. That might be worth pursuing, I have AutoDesk 360 but it's overly complicated for my present skillset. opf (open path) font extension is recognized only by Make The Cut® () to have a clean single line font with curved lines that only trace once. FeatureCAM 2014, Make the Cut (), Rhinoceros® (), Text Sketcher® (), SolidWorks 2014 (), Visualmill®, & WoodWOP2014 ()currently have a "single line font" feature that will correctly draw this font format. It requires that the software provider make a simple adjustment to ensure that the 'OC' font files are rendered correctly. OC- The 'OC' format for open curve uses bezier curves & traces only once. The SP format does require that curves be made up of lines, and thus far has been confirmed to be effective in Camworks® () and SolidCam. SP- The 'SP' format will contain (SP) in the name, for straight path, is more specialized and is designed to trace the path only once. This format should work with most programs. Universal- The universal font format has curved single line shapes designed to have minimal lifts, but your machine will likely trace the path twice. There does seem to exist single stroke fonts that will trace only once, but they require the program to accept them, they are not universal.Įach font/s you purchase will include 4 TTF font files: Is there such a thing as a font that is truly a single line, that can be used in place of standard fonts? It's not an inconsequential purchase, but it could take a time consuming job and streamline it considerably as well as open up lots of new business. Even as basic as the software is that came with my fiber, it can handle auto-generating serial numbers and it has stick/single line fonts just for this purpose. What material are you marking? if it's something a fiber could handle then you might want to consider a new machine for this purpose. I'm fairly certain software will get the job done cheaper, just need to find the right one. ![]() A very nice guy at livinfrared said a meniscus lens might give me a little improvement because the plano-convex used is sloppy by comparison, but before I plunk down $250 for a lens I'd like to be sure it's a solution. Mike Null has a fiber project brewing that I've put my name in on, just have to see what he's cooking up and the time frame, for now software will have to do. I only need a slight improvement to make them better, I believe a single-stroke font would do the trick. I'd like to stay married:D For now I'm hoping to nail down a software because it's probably out there, just buried under a lot of hassle to find. I'm entertaining that route, the parts I currently do won't support the expense so those new lines of business would have to open up rather quickly.
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