What are the best practices for designing and outputting text to a vinyl cutter?
I am new to CorelDraw. Should text be converted to curves or contours prior to cutting? If so, what is the technical reason behind that?
In my case, I have been designing in CorelDraw using basic fonts and outputting to a roland printer/plotter. the only way I achieve success is by first converting the text to curves. Why?
I have been outputting directly from CorelDraw X6 to a Roland BN-20.
Hi.
I usually Weld the text. It works best most of the time and kills 2 birds with one stone. It joins any connected letters together as to remove intersecting paths. Assign the W key on your keyboard to the Weld function and make it easy.
~John
Type some text using a script font, change your view to Wireframe, see how the font is out lines with the letters overlapping each other.
Now with the text selected hit Ctrl+Q on your keyboard you have now converted the text to plain vectors but still with the overlaps.
Final step is to hit Ctrl+W (Weld) and you will see the text converted to one cuttable object. Note you may have to hit the Weld command a couple of time to get everything to Weld.
If you are doing this a lot Johns Tip of assigning the W key to the Weld function is handy.
Good luck!