The finish with help strengthen the wood and help prevent tear out. What material are you trying to cut? Make sure you're using a very very sharp bit, that will help prevent tear out of the centers of e and a.Īnother trick that helps with small fonts is to finish the plaque first and spray on several coats of lacquer or shellac then cut your letters. First what size letters are you trying to carve? Unless you're trying for a specific look I've had better luck with a vbit and using the V-Carve toolpath. Overall best advice is to try several different methods on scrap material. I will also mess with the individual letter spacing until the lettering looks correct to my eye. I always go in and clean up the font vectors to get rid of any overlaps.
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I generally do not have to set a height as the vbit regulates the height via the vector width. I also use the vcarve option quite a bit but in those instances I use the true type script fonts. I'm not using the vcarve option, I'm using profile and have tried outside right, inside left and no offset without any luck. It's very possible I'm trying to cut the letters too deep. Even on large plaques certain letters do not carve well. I want to use a script like font but many of the lower case letters like a or e carve out and look like an o. Vectric Forum Forum for users of Vectric products Skip to content.īest font This forum is for users to post tips and tricks they have found useful while working with VCarve Pro.