I got such great help on drafting and routing and such here before I figured I would ask this,,
So I have the following I want to engrave. I need to have the space between the lines in the numbers transparent. The original idea was to paint a piece of Lexan black, lightly engrave the outlines then manually scrap the paint between the lines. But I was wondering if there was a better way. Maybe to get the router to do it for me?
I suppose I could simply use a wider bit and use a stick font instead but nit sure I would get the results I want.
The software I used is called F-Engrave. It can be found here.
http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave_doc.html
It has two modes. Engrave and V-Carve. I am not exactly sure what the differences are but the V-Carve mode locks the line thickness setting and requires that you enter tool settings. Where engrave does not take any tool settings other than depth, engraving speed etc.
So I have the following I want to engrave. I need to have the space between the lines in the numbers transparent. The original idea was to paint a piece of Lexan black, lightly engrave the outlines then manually scrap the paint between the lines. But I was wondering if there was a better way. Maybe to get the router to do it for me?
I suppose I could simply use a wider bit and use a stick font instead but nit sure I would get the results I want.
The software I used is called F-Engrave. It can be found here.
http://www.scorchworks.com/Fengrave/fengrave_doc.html
It has two modes. Engrave and V-Carve. I am not exactly sure what the differences are but the V-Carve mode locks the line thickness setting and requires that you enter tool settings. Where engrave does not take any tool settings other than depth, engraving speed etc.