Creating a text word as an output object for CNC routing

[howser37]

I Imagine everyone has different ways of doing it depending on what software you use.

I would use photoshop to draw the sign using a font and some editing to get it all to flow nice, then i would import it into vectric and trace it, you could also trace it using illustrator etc.

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[Sven]

I would write up the text in inkscape, convert that text to path, then save as dxf.

Load the dxf in f-engrave and then mill that with a v-carving bit.

All of that software is open source.

[Musht]

CamBam does it quite well in one program, 40 use free trial:
http://www.cambam.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3211.0

Sketchup works fine , get the .stl export plug in

[wansanshu]

Many thanks for all the assistance folks. Certainly a few options here. I'll try some out and see how it goes.