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lol... yeah. I tend to make everything hard on myself. I do have f-engrave installed. I forgot about that program. I'll try it. In the meantime, I gave up on the cnc and did it with the laser...

Hi there... so, that is basically what I'm getting with Inkscape using standard fonts. There is something called Hershey Text in Inkscape (and other programs I believe) that basically uses a single...

Oh.. OK. I'll try that. I appreciate it!

I'm sorry... I meant that I am trying to engrave that text with a CNC router. I've got the laser part pretty much down pat :) Thank you, though.

I am trying to engrave this text on to some Christmas ornaments I made with a laser engraver (or rather cutter in this case, I guess).

I know enough to know that you should engrave text using...

The Kernel Speed is currently set at 25000... :(

I appreciate the replies. Let me try to answer each one in order.

* I have tried slowing the acceleration and velocity settings with no effect.

* Mach3 is the only thing running. This computer...

I built a CNC machine based on this book - CNC Book - Build Your Own CNC Machine

The x- and y-axis seem to be working (relatively) fine. My problem is the z-axis. As the axis is moved up and down...

In which program? And why is it not the 3x3" that I already scaled it to in gimp?

First, there are so many topics here, I am not sure WHERE to put this, but this seemed to fit...

I am trying to convert a raster image to gcode to cut on a homebuilt machine. I did this once...

Great. Thank you. I'll install Heeks tonight and give it a try. I know what you mean about late nights...

For the time being (and probably for the foreseeable future), just for playing at home. I'll go look at PowerStation now...

By all means - Push OpenSource! GNU is my new best friend.:cheers:

As for the model, to be honest, I just drew that up so that I could teach myself CAD design and then walk myself through the CAM...

I gotcha.. BTW - I was looking at the carvings you did with MicroCarve. They are awesome dude!

Really? Ever since I went to Linux several years ago, I haven't found a single thing (aside from this CAD/CNC issue) that I couldn't handle as good as, if not better than, I ever could have in...

That looks interesting... Don't get me wrong - I'm not totally opposed to commercial software...

Ok... I have (kinda) figured out CAD using SketchUp, but...

Before I put blade to wood and actually build this thing, I am trying to get a handle on the software first. And since I have NEVER used...

I downloaded SketchUp and (running it under VirtualBox in Linux) I am beginning to think maybe I can do this...

Thank you all for bearing with me. I appreciate all the help and advice!

Ok... maybe I am asking the wrong question here then. For over 25 years I have been able to teach myself everything I ever needed to know about computers - from building them to Photoshop, HTML, C++,...

Oh... one more thing I wanted to ask... The cutting bit - does the control software take into account the diameter of the cutting bit? Because if one piece were cut out with an 1/8" diameter bit and...

Thanks for the welcome :) The information of your site was very informative. Especially the CNC Information page. I know that you, and everyone else pushes the high-dollar, high-powered...

Yeah, that much i do get, but I think my problem is in understanding things like... how do you know (or rather how does the control software know) where you have placed the workpiece, how does the...

Hi... I am totally new to CNC. After years of drooling over commercial CNC machines, I picked up a book the other day on building your own. Although it expects the reader to figure out a lot of the...