topic Re: 2D Text as line drawing for a Laser Cuttting machine Program in AutoCAD Forum https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/7987196#M180403 <P>You can use the Express tool TXTEXP to turn your text into lines.&nbsp;</P> <P>From the example below you will have to do a little clean up afterwards as sometimes there are extra lines etc.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="CADnoob text explode 1.png" style="width: 556px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/497883iDCA3A6C32D67E3C6/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="CADnoob text explode 1.png" alt="CADnoob text explode 1.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="CADnoob text explode 2.png" style="width: 868px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/497884i5DB5B61DEDE2DC5F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="CADnoob text explode 2.png" alt="CADnoob text explode 2.png" /></span></P> Tue, 08 May 2018 13:11:21 GMT TheCADnoob 2018-05-08T13:11:21Z 2D Text as line drawing for a Laser Cuttting machine Program https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/7986745#M180402 <P>my company has an laser cutting cnc machine, that cuts all drawing ffrom cad. but now i want to know how to cut texts . so how can i add text for cutting.</P> Tue, 08 May 2018 10:05:26 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/7986745#M180402 Anonymous 2018-05-08T10:05:26Z Re: 2D Text as line drawing for a Laser Cuttting machine Program https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/7987196#M180403 <P>You can use the Express tool TXTEXP to turn your text into lines.&nbsp;</P> <P>From the example below you will have to do a little clean up afterwards as sometimes there are extra lines etc.&nbsp;</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="CADnoob text explode 1.png" style="width: 556px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/497883iDCA3A6C32D67E3C6/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="CADnoob text explode 1.png" alt="CADnoob text explode 1.png" /></span><span class="lia-inline-image-display-wrapper lia-image-align-inline" image-alt="CADnoob text explode 2.png" style="width: 868px;"><img src="https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/image/serverpage/image-id/497884i5DB5B61DEDE2DC5F/image-size/large?v=v2&amp;px=999" role="button" title="CADnoob text explode 2.png" alt="CADnoob text explode 2.png" /></span></P> Tue, 08 May 2018 13:11:21 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/7987196#M180403 TheCADnoob 2018-05-08T13:11:21Z Re: 2D Text as line drawing for a Laser Cuttting machine Program https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/8009780#M180404 <P>CNC machine only reads model file if I am not mistaken. It's just like 3D printer. Even if the thickness of the text is 1/256" or 0.0000001mm. it is still 3D.</P><P>Hope this helps.</P> Thu, 17 May 2018 19:09:34 GMT https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-forum/2d-text-as-line-drawing-for-a-laser-cuttting-machine-program/m-p/8009780#M180404 Llam.Tech 2018-05-17T19:09:34Z