Engraving names

[PeterM]

I've been tasked with engraving presentation gifts for a company. The first problem is that I need to use a proprietary font. I think that if they can get me the font in true type that I can use it directly in Mastercam, if not it's going to be a rats nest. There are seventy names and five different text strings to use and I am thinking that I will need to use a macro to call the different names. That is complicated enough. Any comments or suggestions?

[JParis]

If it's not just straight line contours, use the engraving option

[Guest]

31 minutes ago, PeterM said:

I've been tasked with engraving presentation gifts for a company. The first problem is that I need to use a proprietary font. I think that if they can get me the font in true type that I can use it directly in Mastercam, if not it's going to be a rats nest. There are seventy names and five different text strings to use and I am thinking that I will need to use a macro to call the different names. That is complicated enough. Any comments or suggestions?

You can always use rast2vec chook to create the wireframe, then drag divide to clean it up if necessary

[PeterM]

10 minutes ago, byte me said:

You can always use rast2vec chook to create the wireframe, then drag divide to clean it up if necessary

I think that I was a little unclear. one piece will have one name, the next piece will have another name, etc. etc. So seventy presentation pieces seventy different names.

[#Rekd™]

If you can use a true font I would just do it with engraving in Mastercam. You will waste more time trying to get other methods to work and the results will likely not be as good.

 

 

 

 

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, PeterM said:

I think that I was a little unclear. one piece will have one name, the next piece will have another name, etc. etc. So seventy presentation pieces seventy different names.

No I understand, but if you don't get the font..

[PeterM]

1 minute ago, byte me said:

No I understand, but if you don't get the font..

Oh. I'll see if the true type font is given over and if not I will try the chook. Thanks