Morning All
Could anyone please steer me towards a single line font as near to Arial as possible
I need to produce a number of items with text on some being fairly small the customer would like Arial but when i get down to around 12mm or 1/2" it starts to get a bit tight with cutter diameter
Any thoughts or ideas would be gratefully received
As you can see DejaVu Sans / Bitstream Vera Sans have more width as Arial. I find that with Arial, ubiquitous in the web, letters are very close side by side and narrow at same time and not that easy to read.
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If you look at arial each letter has 2 vectors and a space between them when you create a tool path the choice is inside vector or outside vector or along vector but in order to get this to work on small fonts you need very tiny cutters.
@CSM if you are using vectric there is a single font option and Helvetica looks very similar to Arial. I all make sure I ungroup the font and convert to curves so I can adjust the spacing of each letter myself.
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Just to share a discovery I accidentally made - my VCarve Pro CNC Router software that I have been using to develop Glowforge artwork (out of familiarity more than anything else) has a selection of fonts that are single line or double line, which would work better for score operations with text.
I'm using single line fonts (CamBam and OrachTech) on the Mac and I can use them without problems in other applications. But when I use them in Fusion they show up as normal outline fonts. How to fix that?
Thanks for posting! I tested out the CamBam font today, as well as a single-line CNC vector font, and found that neither was shown accurately or exploded as a single line font in Fusion when I tested on my Mac. They did explode as single line fonts, however, on my PC.
Because of this inconsistency, I have logged a report (FUS-32414) with our development team to look further into this issue. We are aware of the current limitations when working with text in Fusion 360 and will be looking at improving text in Fusion in a future update.
In the meantime, the easiest workaround (if you do not have access to a Windows machine) would be to use an Engraving toolpath, which will use a single line/pass for cutting the letters whether or not the text is exploded. Why would you prefer to not do so? The other option, for now, could be to draw centerlines in the outline fonts and use the manually sketched entities to drive your CAM toolpaths.
For what it's worth I was using the CAMWorks font that came with our old CAM software and it failed to explode. I can send it to you if that would be helpful. My own experiences with it are not optimal and I have found minor discrepancies in its geometry in SolidWorks.
Is there an update to this issue? I've tried a number of different ways to engrave text, trace text, mill text. None of them are working, despite finding some excellent tutorial this continues to be a pain in the bum and I've not found a work around that is consistent.
I believe if a line is defined as a single line in Inkscape it should be brought into Fusion as a single line - the information should be maintained in the SVG. It may be something particular to the font you are using in Inkscape - is the font showing up as a single line there?
I did find this video today, which may help you get single line fonts out of Inkscape. Hopefully this helps! I would think that Inkscape may also not be seeing the CAMBAM font as a truly single line font. If this does not work, feel free to share the SVG file from Inkscape with me (by attaching it to this forum thread) - I am happy to have a look.
I've been thinking of trying some of the single line fonts from One Line Fonts, Has anyone tried them in Fusion 360? How about on the mac? The regular weighted fonts are designed at 1/4" in height with 1/32" (.032") milling tool. When using different heights you simply adjust the tool size accordingly. This sounds like exactly what we all need.
At the risk of being OT... I download the sample font from onelinefonts.com and tried the three included versions. The OC version looks promising but some of the letters miss segments on the trace. Further research revealed that some adjustments may need to be made to the software for the font to work correctly.
3. OC- The 'OC' format for open curve uses bezier curves & traces only once. It requires that the software provider make a simple adjustment to ensure that the 'OC' font files are rendered correctly. Enroute 6, FeatureCAM 2014, Make the Cut, Rhinoceros, Solid Edge ST9, SolidWorks 2014, Visualmill, Text Sketcher, WoodWOP2014, Hundegger, & Impact currently have a "single line font" feature that will correctly draw this font format.
Justin from OLF reached out via email. I was mistaken, the font I was using was the universal, not the OC. Too many fonts for my brain. In any case he wanted a pic of the letters ABCDabcd123 for reference. Maybe this can get dialog open. I was amazed how quickly he responded to my query.
Now here is the rub. The universal font appears to post a whole bunch of segments rather than arcs, but if I understand the OC version correctly that would be corrected if the fonts were made native. I've attached my g-code for reference.
Yeah, thinking it's a TTF issue. I've tried, using FontForge, to make a single line font to keep cutter from jumping around in toolpath with no success. I think TTF always assumes block characters (likely why the CamBam font fills holes in letter/numbers) and likely why the SVG text files are working for others and not TTF text.
At very least, Autodesk has a feature called, "Overkill" in other software that finds duplicate items and removes. Can y'all at least add that? I've attached my model. Check out the CAM toolpaths on my model to see why this is a problem for machining. I didn't 'clean' the first Trace operation toolpaths. I cleaned (removed double entities) the second toolpath.
Any progress on this issue? I have just come over from another platform and am pretty disappointed in the inserting text abilities. I make panels that require engraving, the text needs to be centre justified above cutouts etc and then single line engraved. I used to do this with the CAMworks font, but as mentioned earlier in this thread it does not show up, nor does there seem to be a quick way to place text properly. Any ideas?
My site is www.singlelinefonts.com. I have released fonts in 2 phases: .ttf fonts which have a duplicate line and also .opf fonts which have open paths and are native to only 3 software programs. I am ready to go with creating a section for .ttf single line, open path fonts that work in Rhino, but I have no experience with this program and need beta testing first across many operating systems and both Mac and Windows platforms.
Hello and welcome! I'm Leslie, the resident font guru here at Single Line Fonts. This site is a labor of love, built over decades of passion for crafting and font design. Although the site was officially launched in 2018, the journey began about 25 years ago when my children were young and I immersed myself in scrapbooking.
Back in the early days, I started creating fonts for Pazzles personal cutting machines using a now-obsolete software program. These early fonts were primarily for journaling and cardmaking, and I ended up creating 33 unique fonts. Our small group was pioneering the use of single line fonts long before they became popular. I owe much of my inspiration to those wonderful ladies, including Christine, the original founder of Pazzles, who fueled my curiosity about font design.
For many years, there were virtually no single line fonts available for use with other craft cutters, engravers, and plotter-type machines. I was the first to make single line true-type fonts (with no outlines) widely available. Later, I developed the FontLab Pad format, which has opened up the world of single line fonts to millions of users. This version is especially popular among users of Brother, Silhouette, Solo, Cricut, and Glowforge machines.
My journey didn't stop there. I went on to create versions for Rhino3D software and Inkscape, as well as for websites like Whimsical Winds and Coach House Woodworks. Today, my fonts are used by a diverse group of professionals and hobbyists alike, including woodworkers, metal engravers, architects, machinists, engineering students, jewelers, and artisans in the scrapbooking, cardmaking, and foil quilling communities.
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These letters do not have any outlines at all!. Like the name implies, they are are "single line fonts", also called "stick fonts", "single stroke fonts", "sketch pen fonts", "engraving fonts", or "journaling fonts". They are for use in machinery such as engravers, Glowforge, Shaper Origin, AxiDraw, Silhouette, Cricut, and similar machines. We offer ttf, otf, opf formats, Inkscape Hershey Text Extension SVG and Rhinoceros 3D fonts, as well as our new "Machinist" format, which cuts scoring time down drastically.
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