Converting text to outline

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Converting text to outline

Post by andrew » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:39 pm

From a QCAD user:

Could you tell me if there's a way to insert or convert text to an outline?
I want to use Qcad to output to a laser cutter to cut out letters.

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Re: Converting text to outline

Post by andrew » Sun Sep 08, 2013 4:42 pm

- Select the text(s) to convert
- Modify - Explode

Note that we also have a CAM add-on for QCAD which produces for example G-Code from all entities including text outlines.

More information about QCAD/CAM:
http://qcad.org/en/what-is-qcad-cam

Online ordering:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/shop/product. ... roduct=193

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