When you use them they will truly cut in a single line. Perhaps buy one of the fonts from the “Bargain Bin” to test? Here’s a discussion of the technical aspect: Or it may be that Carbide Create misliking overlapping paths will not work well. I suspect that only the first sort would work (normally TrueType fonts are supposed to be closed paths, hence “outline”) perhaps one of the others would as well.

opf (open path) font extension is recognized only by Make The Cut® to have a clean single line font with curved lines that only trace once. Enroute 6, FeatureCAM 2014, Make the Cut, Rhinoceros®, Solid Edge ST9®, SolidWorks 2014, Visualmill®, Text Sketcher®, WoodWOP2014, Hundegger, & Impact currently have a “single line font” feature that will correctly draw this font format. It requires that the software provider make a simple adjustment to ensure that the ‘OC’ font files are rendered correctly. OC- The ‘OC’ format for open curve uses bezier curves & traces only once.The SP format does require that curves be made up of lines, and thus far has been confirmed to be effective in Camworks® and SolidCam. SP- The ‘SP’ format will contain (SP) in the name, for straight path, is more specialized and is designed to trace the path only once.

This format should work with most programs. Universal- The universal font format has curved single line shapes designed to have minimal lifts, but your machine will likely trace the path twice.FWIW, this site was listed at: Įach font/s you purchase will include 4 TTF font files:

Camworks font