I have a cnc plotter, it draws with a pen, and I want to make it write text with my custom font.
I have the font, and everything is perfect. But the problem is, when I convert the text to gcode, the letters are just displayed as the outlines of the text, I want to write those letters like, a single line. Should I change the diameter of the instrument? It's already bigger than a single letter, 10mm. How could I do that?
If you are getting outlines of the text, you don't have single line text. I think you may find that you need .SHX fonts but I'm not sure there's support for that type of typeface. I found a couple references when searching for .SHX support for inkscape, including a promising one:
The problem is, that with most fonts there is only an outline style. And yes, the Hershey font extension creates single line text for exactly this purpose. The Hershey extension is created by evilmadscientist. It uses svg fonts with a single line.
One option is to trace your own alfabet with the pen tool over the centre of the lines and create a single line text. If you only have a short text, you could do that.
On the website of evilmadscientist there is a lot of information about that and also a link to a company that creates these kind of personal fonts.
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Hi!
I have a cnc plotter, it draws with a pen, and I want to make it write text with my custom font.
I have the font, and everything is perfect. But the problem is, when I convert the text to gcode, the letters are just displayed as the outlines of the text, I want to write those letters like, a single line.
Should I change the diameter of the instrument? It's already bigger than a single letter, 10mm. How could I do that?
Thanks for any help!
If you are getting outlines of the text, you don't have single line text. I think you may find that you need .SHX fonts but I'm not sure there's support for that type of typeface. I found a couple references when searching for .SHX support for inkscape, including a promising one:
https://www.evilmadscientist.com/2011/hershey-text-an-inkscape-extension-for-engraving-fonts/
You may want to perform a search on your own to determine if there's an option to use .SHX single line fonts.
No, I need to use my own created .ttf font, it's because it's my handwriting
Hi Danylo,
The problem is, that with most fonts there is only an outline style.
And yes, the Hershey font extension creates single line text for exactly this purpose.
The Hershey extension is created by evilmadscientist.
It uses svg fonts with a single line.
One option is to trace your own alfabet with the pen tool over the centre of the lines and create a single line text.
If you only have a short text, you could do that.
On the website of evilmadscientist there is a lot of information about that and also a link to a company that creates these kind of personal fonts.