"Laser" cutting font on sheet metal
"Laser" cutting font on sheet metal
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I am trying to extrude font to form a cut-out in a flat part. Typically a laser cutter will cut out the font - I did it once and can't get the same result now - don't want big holes where missing text pieces "fall out" because there is no rib holding them to the parent part.
I have the lettering which I used to generate the attached jpg font - it was Tahoma using an extrude cut - but there was a trick to it - an option to engrave or cut or something which produces the lettering in the jpg.
If one flattens regular text extruded on a sheet metal e.g. the "O" is a contiguous hollow - the centre correctly falls away.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Link to example .jpg if it does not follow this post:
http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=98d3136d-a5c8-409d-a583-c8b752bf32be&file=PUNCHED_FONT.jpg
I have the lettering which I used to generate the attached jpg font - it was Tahoma using an extrude cut - but there was a trick to it - an option to engrave or cut or something which produces the lettering in the jpg.
If one flattens regular text extruded on a sheet metal e.g. the "O" is a contiguous hollow - the centre correctly falls away.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Link to example .jpg if it does not follow this post:
http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=98d3136d-a5c8-409d-a583-c8b752bf32be&file=PUNCHED_FONT.jpg





RE: "Laser" cutting font on sheet metal
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EngAddict triggered the word "stencil" which I couldn't think of at the time so I have done what pakl suggested.
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Thanks
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RE: "Laser" cutting font on sheet metal
Been through all the fonts on my laptop and don't have that one! My CAD machine is a x64 bit XP so am not sure where I got the one that I used - did recently (a few weeks ago) re-format my drive and re-load all the software (it's a microsoft thing!) so perhaps I was clever last time around and simply forgot!
Anyway, this font is exactly what I'm looking for! (It has a microsoft tag so it's obviously a standard one with some application)
Its going on both machines now.
Cheers
RE: "Laser" cutting font on sheet metal