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Hey everyone,

Trying to get a cnc machine to write text as a single line. I have a single line font but I need a way to convert this to vector.

For example the letter T will beccome two lines. Anyone have to achieve this before with pitstop, switch etc?

Hi,

You can convert text to outlines using a single action (vectorize text), but this won't split a letter like "T" into separate elements.

If I understand correctly, you're looking to decompose letters like this:

T → | and _

V → \ and /

q → c and |

d → c and |

I'm not deeply familiar with CNC requirements, but wouldn't the control software handle such decomposition automatically?
With PitStop, your best option might be to switch to a font that's already visually separated, then vectorize it.

Here’s an example of such a font:
https://www.dafont.com/fr/calculator.font