How to join lines, because my text is made of too many small segments

[Anonymous]

I have some text to be engraved. Each letter is made of many small lines. It will take a long time to select every line segment for the engraving process.

How can I join the lines? I see there is a break line tool, I need to do the opposite of this I think.

[etfrench]

This thread may possibly help: https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/unable-to-chamfer-a-created-part-from-a-dxf/...

[Anonymous]

I think I'm doing this engraving the wrong way to start with. Fusion does not want to engrave along a single line. There is no depth setting in the engraving tool because the depth is calculated by the line width and the v-point tool angle. I will try to use the offset tool to add thickness to the text. 

[HughesTooling]

For single line engraving use trace or you can use 2d profile and set the compensation type to Off. One question, is the text single line, I've had problems sometimes where there are 2 curves one on top of another so the chaining in the CAM fails.

Mark

[Anonymous]

I tried to use 2D profile, I can't get it to work for engraving. Adding thickness to the lines using the offset tool on both sides, adding a semicircle arc to the ends of the letter, and trimming all the overlaps works with the engrave tool, but it is very slow to do this because the chain selection is not working on the offset tool, and I can't work out how to join line segments so I have to do an offset to every line segment separately. 

I still can't understand why it is not possible to join lines, this is a fundamental feature on most design software.

[etfrench]

Can you post your file? It doesn't need to be the full file, just a portion of the text would be fine. 

[Anonymous]

Here is the file.

I'm not expecting anybody to do the work for me. It is good if I can learn to do it myself.

I don't know why the lines of the DXF that I imported are green, and line I create in Fusion are blue.

I am doing this work on a mac. There might be different bug or limitations on the mac version. 

[etfrench]

The easy fix workaround would be to change fonts   It would be much faster than offsetting each line segment.  Additionally the output in CAM would be much better and probably machine faster as well.

 @Anonymous This file is crashing Fusion 360 when selecting the sketch to edit. It only started doing this after first attempting to use the offset command on the letter S. 

[Anonymous]

I tried using the fonts in Fusion, but I can't see a way to change the line thickness. They way I am doing it is working but it is very slow. The CAM simulation is showing an efficient path with no unnecessary movements. Basically I have found a hack that make the program behave like stick font engraving. I want the simple industrial look of a single stroke engraving. 

[HughesTooling]

Did you try trace?

Mark