Cursive Name Cutout Help

[doublejz]

I'm new to this pattern creation portion. What I'm attempting to do is to make my daughter a cutout of her name to finish up the nursery before her arrival. I'm trying to make the cut of her name be all connected and in cursive. I've attached the project which I know isn't correct but the problem I'm having is if you just type Jacqueline in French Script MT the J isn't connected to the rest of the letters. When I move the J over to overlap with the a, things get weird.

I'm also going to be using 3/4" wood with the 1/16" ballnose. I set the depth to .75 within "select bit" so I would think it would be a cutout, yes?

Any help will be great, thanks!

Jacqueline.mpc

[Digitalwoodshop]

I didn't have time to mess with it... But 2 choices.. 1 is to type the J Separate and place it over the Whole typed name just to get the size then go back to the name and delete the J from the Spelling and make it a J and the rest of the name as 2 words. Then you can position the J to proper position.

OR you can draw a rectangle and place it as a connector between the J and the rest of the name as all one word and then outline that. Adjust the Rectangle Connector to size to make it work then remove it leaving just the outline.

AL

[Rob Mulgrew]

There is a video on Ask Buds page that explains how to do text cut outs. http://www2.wcoil.com/~nharbison/cw-...0downloads.htm. Scroll down to "Text Cutouts" There is alot of other good training videos there that can help us. I am still fairly new myself here. Lawrence also has instructional videos on this at http://forum.carvewright.com/showthr...ghlight=sister Scroll down the the bottom of the page and you will see his post and the videos attached.

Rob

[badbert]

There is a video on Ask Buds page that explains how to do text cut outs. http://www2.wcoil.com/~nharbison/cw-... downloads.htm. Scroll down to "Text Cutouts" There is alot of other good training videos there that can help us. I am still fairly new myself here. Lawrence also has instructional videos on this at http://forum.carvewright.com/showthr...ghlight=sister Scroll down the the bottom of the page and you will see his post and the videos attached.

Rob

Great post Rob! Keep it up! Good call for askbud!

[Rob Mulgrew]

Great post Rob! Keep it up! Good call for askbud!

Thank you! I am glad to be part of this forum. I have gotten so much help from here and believe it or not with me being new I have already got a bunch of private messages from others asking for help and because of what I have learned from others here I was able to help them out.

[bergerud]

You could make the virtual board thicker in Designer so that you can cut deeper.
OR
To make the scallop into a cut out, you would have to join all of your arcs together into one curve which goes from one end of the designer board to the other. With the whole scallop selected, move arc end points onto other arc end points and they will "weld". (Make sure snap to grid is off and it is useful to toggle non end points under the view menu.) When it is all one curve connecting one edge of the board to the other, the cut out button will light up.

[doublejz]

You could make the virtual board thicker in Designer so that you can cut deeper.
OR
To make the scallop into a cut out, you would have to join all of your arcs together into one curve which goes from one end of the designer board to the other. With the whole scallop selected, move arc end points onto other arc end points and they will "weld".

I have no clue what you mean here. Can you explain on how to do this a little more?

[bergerud]

I played with it a little. You can have a look and see if this is sort of what you want. I connected the J and converted it to be cut out with the 1/8 cutting bit.

[doublejz]

I played with it a little. You can have a look and see if this is sort of what you want. I connected the J and converted it to be cut out with the 1/8 cutting bit.

Thanks. After playing around with this it appears that cutting each letter out and gluing it to the shelf will look better. I already created the file in illustrator, traced it and exported it as a dxf file. However, with not having bought the DXF importer license I can't import and save it as a mpc. Could someone import the attached file and remove the box/outline around the name and save it as a mpc file? I'm not sure spending $200 is worth my first attempt of making a sign.

carvewright.dxf

[doublejz]

Ok, so I tried the attached mpc on a piece of scrap plywood (yes I know.... plywood) just to see what it would look like. It did kick out some small pieces but I contribute that to the plywood as well as the small pattern with tiny "tabs" if you will.

The part that confuses me is that it went through with the 1/16 ballnose and carved everything down 1/4" and then asked for the 1/8" cutting bit. After I swapped out the bit, it then went over everything again cutting through the board. Is there something I did wrong in the mpc? I don't see why it used the carving bit to achieve the same thing that the cutting but did.

Shelf Backing.mpc