CREATE DXF OF LASER CUT PART TO INCLUDE LASER ETCHED TEXT?

[Anonymous]

Hi, hope someone can help - I have created some parts to be laser cut, as DXF file, but need to add some text to parts that can be laser etched. How do I add text that can be etched rather than shapes that will be cut out!

[g-andresen]

Hi,

ask your laser cutter&engraver which data are needed.

Maybe it is a second sketch with special symbolism.

günther

[MoshiurRashid]

Hi

Thanks for posting. From my experience I don't think the cutting depth or cutting or etching is dependent on the dxf. You just create the boundary in dxf. I would rather create the text and fill the sketch with solid gradient and then rest will be done in cam.

Please contact with the machine operator/programmer and ask him what he need specifically for the text.

[Anonymous]

Figured how to add - pretty simple - just using the add text command from the sketch and selecting a single line font like CDM.shx.

However, when it is saved as a DXF file, it is lost and the border becomes a cut line?

[Anonymous]

Also, the details required for laser etch are as below:

Did you want a line (vector) engrave, so like the outline of some text or a raster engrave which would mean that the text would be infilled.

• Vector engraving / scoring:
• Blue Lines - hairline stroke width - colour: RGB: 0,0,255
• Raster engraving:
• Black lines / fills - any stroke width - RGB: 0,0,0

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

Solved this myself.

For some strange reason, if I actually create the font in lines within sketch, it works fine, whereas using the text function doesn't.

[troyostrander]

About your solution...so you drew the letters with lines?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

1.create text

2. Rightclick  > „ Explode „ >  text is converted to curves

günther