Don't forget to draw the outline of the shape you want to cut: I usually create a set of guides on another layer to help line everything up. You can use the normal move, copy, rotate tools to do this. Once you have exploded your text if you want to rearrange the letters - for instance Rachel wanted swoopy lines to fit with her artwork: This means that the letters are still not lines, which is what we want for kiss cutting. If you use Explode Text into Letters then it creates lots of objects as though you had individually created each letter with the Text tool. Using Explode converts the letters from objects into single lines. To convert this into a path for the laser to follow, select it and use the explode function. To demonstrate I will use the short phrase:įirst insert the text into LibreCAD using the text tool: This blog will assume you are using it, but other 2D packages have similar functionality. We often use LibreCAD to make our laser cutter files. Here's a quick 'how to' on creating your own 'Kiss cut' lettering: For script type fonts it works really well. 'Kiss cutting' more closely mimics handwriting, where letters are formed from individual strokes. Where a font will engrave, the nature of raster engraving means the lettering often looks 'pixelated'.
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'Kiss cutting' is especially useful for engraving lettering.Ī lot of fonts will not successfully raster engrave - the software requires an engraved area to be 'closed', which only works if a font has 'thickness'.
'Kiss cutting' is a different laser technique that lightly engraves a surface, but the laser doesn't follow a raster pattern, it follows a cut line. You can get some excellent effects with raster engraving - check out Emma's blog on scan gap engraving
Laser Engraving is generally a raster operation - where a picture is broken into a pattern of parallel lines and the laser is scanned over it turning on and off - much like an old CRT display. Most laser cutters have options to cut or engrave in their software. If you are cutting then you get left with a hole all the way through the material, and if you are engraving you are left with just a shallow crater. Having suggested 'Kiss cutting' the letters and being met with a 'what is that?' response, I thought maybe it would be good blog subject.Ī laser cuts or engraves by localised vaporisation of the surface. She wanted to mount a piece with a powerful paragraph under it, but without detracting from the glasswork. Rachel makes amazing stained glass art ( check out her website). The inspiration for this blog post came from a tweet:
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