On Monday 11 February 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >I have built up a router table with XYZ motion stages. My intent is to >produce wood and >Corian type signs. I have EMC driving steppers via a 1284 parallel port. >It's working >out very well. Now I am looking for fonts in the form of G code. Does >anyone know of any? > >I have code to resize and move the G code to fit the work piece but I have >yet to >find anything that would allow me to rip a True Type font into G-Code or >just a source >of G code fonts. > >I am trying to avoid purchasing an expensive CAD package just to have the >ability to >generate signs. Maybe there is a CAD for Ubuntu? > >I am new to Linux but so far am very pleased at the quality and robustness >of the whole >OS and EMC support. > >Thanks, Jim Combs > >Lexington, KY > There is the TrueTypeTracer, (google for it) which takes a tt font, and the text you want to make gcode from. It draws the outline of the font with gcode, but I don't have the proper engraving bits to make it look 'pretty' since it doesn't trace the center of each character. I would be very nice if this actually traced the geometric centerline, or did fill removal inside he characters. However for brass nameplates and such, it works quite well if a cursive font is used. I believe that or something very similar was used to generate the gcode axis logo module that emc loads on default at startup.
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