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Creating letters question


danatoem
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This may be more curiosity than anything, and it may have been hashed over before and i'm not seeing it? Im using 2019 and when I hover my mouse over "create letters" in the wireframe area a window appears and says "create alphanumeric characters comprised of lines, arcs, and nurb splines". So when I create letters using generic stick font or box font it gives me only lines and no arcs? Im thinking there is a way to output as the "window" says, arcs?  is there a setting I can change to achieve this?

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We are just using a stick font and making a pass on the centerline. I noticed that there is a  arial true type font but its not usable for me.

I would end up having to do a pocket pass, when a single pass on the centerline is all that's needed for us.

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6 hours ago, danatoem said:

This may be more curiosity than anything, and it may have been hashed over before and i'm not seeing it? Im using 2019 and when I hover my mouse over "create letters" in the wireframe area a window appears and says "create alphanumeric characters comprised of lines, arcs, and nurb splines". So when I create letters using generic stick font or box font it gives me only lines and no arcs? Im thinking there is a way to output as the "window" says, arcs?  is there a setting I can change to achieve this?

I recommend just leaving the geometry as lines, and running a 2D Contour path as centerline. In the path, you can use the Toolpath Filter to create arcs, by analyzing the path. This is a much better way of generating arcs.

Try using .002 for the total tolerance. Then, enable the Line/Arc Filter.

Set your Cut Tolerance to 25% (.0005), and your Arc Tolerance will go to 75%. (.0015). Set your "min radius" to 0.01 and your "max radius" to 40 inches.

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