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Title: does anyone use a plasma cutter to cut letters?
Post by: andrew.. on April 11, 2019, 08:23:28 AM

Company has a plasma cutter and want to cut words out of the metal.
right now they make the words using line work... very time consuming.

i am looking to see if there is a font or a better/faster way to burn words out of sheet metal.

any info or tips is appreciated

Title: Re: does anyone use a plasma cutter to cut letters?
Post by: ronjonp on April 11, 2019, 09:26:00 AM

Use this: http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=31435.msg589624#msg589624

Title: Re: does anyone use a plasma cutter to cut letters?
Post by: andrew.. on April 11, 2019, 01:33:52 PM

thanks for the reply. I wasnt able to get this to load.

Title: Re: does anyone use a plasma cutter to cut letters?
Post by: ronjonp on April 11, 2019, 05:03:44 PM

What version of AutoCAD are you on?

Title: Re: does anyone use a plasma cutter to cut letters?
Post by: Bryco on April 15, 2019, 05:14:51 PM

If it does not need to be pretty  use simplex.shx (One of the ugliest fonts but it is single stroke)  then use the command tx to explode text (text not mtext)

Title: Re: does anyone use a plasma cutter to cut letters?
Post by: BIGAL on April 19, 2019, 07:06:41 PM

Text2Geometry by Sean Tessier. Down load his software it should do everything you want works on TTF text.

Is really good used by lots of people.