Milling or engraving fonts

[Anonymous]

I purchased a hobby engraving/milling machine, (3040) cheap but good enough for me to play with.  I have the 2.5D profiling and milling working quite well with HSM but am struggling with text.  From reading a few posts, it seems I need to drop it into AutoCAD and convert to single line text of a suitable line font which is a PITA.

I was wondering if anyone had a library of letters created with arcs lines etc that I can pocket, or better yet some code that i can select the mill diameter and create these pockets using a text editor, (something that recognises a character and replaces with said pocket)

otherwise a single line type font that I can put on my sketch and then use the trace tool and set my depth manually

Many thanks

[Marco.Takx]

Engraving is something that is within Inventor HSM Beta version now.

Engrave

I don't know if this will be implemented within the HSM Express version.

[Anonymous]

thanks, i will take a look at this.  do you know if it does true type fonts?

[Marco.Takx]

Hi Stephen,

Yes that is possible.

[Anonymous]

looks good, unfortunatly it appears the beta test is no longer availiable

[Marco.Takx]

Like I said, I don't know if this will be availible for Inventor HSM Express.

If you are using a Inventor HSM or Inventor HSM Professional you have the possibility to install the latest development (Beta) versions.

• Inventor HSM
• Inventor HSM Professional