I do a bit of 'utility engraving' fairly small and you need a stick font so's it doesn't all just run together. I'm spoiled by Cam Bam and don't use it much anymore. You can do multiple lines, place accurately, etc. Gsimple is a rudimentary (also free) cam program which none the less has a stick font included. It's cumbersome, but it works to get the Cam Bam features with a single line font. Save a DXF for each line, open two instances of Cam Bam and cut and paste. Just something to think about, as I know you probably don't have much on your mind!ĭeskengrave (free) has a single line font and will save to a DXF. Just think how nice it would look if all the CamBam attributes could be brought into play as well. I really like the StickFont program as it makes a very nice quick cut that looks great in just one pass. Is there some way that a PlugIn could be written that called the program to get the parameters for the line you have typed into StickFont, and would bring it into CamBam so that is could be manipulated, edited, and then processed into GCode? Doing that repeatedly would allow the construction of multi-line, variable size single line letters that would really be quick to engrave.

As you know, I do a lot of engraving both on metal and plastics for name tags, etc.įor one line name plate kind of stuff I use a program called StickFont which is a free program, and really very small in size, from It creates a single pass one line of text and makes the GCode ready to send to Mach3. Thinking about PlugIns got me thinking about engraving fonts. I want to push the CamBam envelope just a bit here.

Camworks font