Letter cutter
Lettering for cutting. A word is a dozen separate outlines and comes off the bed as a dozen separate bits: this counts them and joins what is loose, so a cake topper or a sign is one piece.
Type the words and set the size. Close the spacing up with tracking, or move single letters yourself: 2:x-1.5 y0.8 s1.1 r-6 moves, scales and turns the third one.
It counts the pieces and adds the shortest bars that make them one. Letters that already touch need none. A gap wider than you allow is reported rather than bridged.
Fatten the strokes if the face is too fine to cut, which is done before joining so letters that grow together need no bar. Add the bar underneath that a topper stands on.
Every setting
18What each number in the dialog means, and where it starts.
What it says. One line per line.
A stencil face is drawn for cutting in, so cutting out needs bars.
Cap height of the letters (mm)
How the lines line up with each other
Space between letters. Negative closes them up, so script letters meet.
Distance from one line down to the next (mm)
Nudge one letter. Click it in the picture above.
Fattens every stroke before joining, so touching letters need no bar.
Add bars wherever the lettering would otherwise fall apart
How wide a bar is (mm)
The longest gap worth bridging (mm). Wider than this and it says so instead of drawing a bar across the design.
Put a bar under the letters, which is what a topper is usually held by
How deep the bar is (mm)
How far the bar runs past the letters at each end (mm)
Engrave it instead of cutting it out
Layer to put it on
Left edge (mm)
Top edge (mm)
What it is
Lettering that comes off the bed in one piece: spacing, per-letter nudging, and the bars that hold it together. For cake toppers, signs and names.