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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: engraving

« on: December 03, 2011, 11:08:21 AM »

The cad-kas was about 100 bucks. The other program that was free was something like stick fonts.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: engraving

« on: December 03, 2011, 11:06:01 AM »

I am using one program called cad-kas font 2dxf. I did a search on stick fonts and a couple of choices came up. I also found that if using this software you call our for a non-stick font and set the thickness to say 1/4 inch you can go into lazy cam and offsett inside the letter with a 1/8 cutter and the end results are also very good. This way will give you more font options but it does take some time and practice. For some reason you have to zoom in on the chain when doing the offsett for it to work inside as wanted. Once you see the offsett remove the original chain while it is still selected. This helps get rid of the confusion of what to remove later. Hope this helps.

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LazyCam (Beta) / Re: engraving

« on: December 02, 2011, 08:36:03 AM »

I am a new user also and found this a little tricky. You have to keep holding the mouse button down when you drag the text. Just put the mouse cursor on the blue screen and click and hold. The larger you make the drag box the larger your text will come out. I can't find a way to make the text come out a  specific size. You can download free software of single line fonts (stick fonts)  that lets you do the sizing and will give you a center line only tool path. I export the text from the free software into my drawing package to put it on my blank size and export the text with the blank as the dxf I want to bring into Lazy cam.