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[SteveNelson46]

Some carvers will use a third party program such as Corel Draw or Adobe Illustrator to convert fonts to vectors and export them to a .dxf file. You can import them into the Designer and assign a bit to the depth you choose. I do it all the time to carve my signature on the back of most of my projects. It really isn't very pretty but, works well for a signature.

[Capt Bruce]

Captain George,

Welcome to the Forum and we hope you are enjoying your new CW.

With regard to your concern using the Centerline Text function for those plaques may I suggest you consider another option if the letters are large. Take your same design for a plaque with its lettering and just change the type from Centerline to Raster carve. Save that change and look at the design again. Now select the text and click on the Invert button. What you will see are letters cut into the board like the photo below using the regular 1/16" carving bit. Try setting the lettering depth to see what looks good to you and creates nice shadows in the letters.

I'm using this method for a whole set of nine different large signs for outdoor display where they must be all the same font at about 3" tall and readable from the street. This was a 1/2 scale sample carved 4.5" tall by 22.5" wide for the customers approval with my bid. Just a suggestion.

These will be finished dark oak with gold filled letters and coated with high gloss spar varnish for good weather and UV resistance.

[abetrman]

Hello All - ABETRMAN (Johnny) here. Just purchased my CW. Looking forward to learning and enjoying this craft. Thanks in advance for the welcomes and the lessons I will learn from everyone.

[blhutchens]

Welcome Johnny

[abetrman]

Thank you!!

[fwharris]

Hello All - ABETRMAN (Johnny) here. Just purchased my CW. Looking forward to learning and enjoying this craft. Thanks in advance for the welcomes and the lessons I will learn from everyone.

Johnny,

Welcome to the CarveWright and forum. Make sure you visit the support section http://www.carvewright.com/support-page/ on the main CarveWright site. Lots of helpful information to get you up and carving.

[Geomoo1]

Johnny, welcome to the CarveWright family. I said family because that is how I view the people on this forum.

[CaptainGeorge]

Thank you very much. I truly thought it was me. Thanks again.

[lynnfrwd]

Capt. Bruce...I love the view from your back deck!!

[flhxlee]

Hello all,
new but not... i've had the carvewright for a year or so when i was building cabinets. i have a remodeling company here on padre island tx, but got so busy (booked for 2.5 years as of now) i had to start subbing out the cabinets again. So now the carvewright will just be for me. but anyways my computer crashed and i lost the program and cant for the life of me figure out how to get it going again... any help would be great. thanks LEE