@anon4321 thats exactly the problem i am trying to solve.
I am playing around with such text to gcode software. The problem i find there is the fonts are made using infill (regular ttf fonts) which impedes the cursive text output. Whereas what I get is a two oulines for any character which leads to overlap and other material depositing issue. I agree this is a start but I have seen Daid doing it in one of his test prints.
I have a UM2 and another makeXY printer.
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If I understand your question, you want to print cursive letters using only a single pass of the nozzle so the "stroke" is .4mm. Is that correct?
Unless Daid has a utility to do this, one way to do it is to use any of the free engraving software (google text to gcode).. However, it isn't a complete solution. They generate gcode for 3 axis engravers or milling machines. 3D printers are actually 4 axes, the normal X, Y and Z of an engrave/mill plus E for the extruder material feed.
Note this only works for one layer. So let's say you used one of the text to gcode utilities for an engraver/mill, you would set the Z to be the thickness of the layer say .1mm. The gcode would would have all the moves for the X, Y and Z. However, the E value would be missing.
So you would a second process that reads the GCODE and calculates the amount of material to feed for the move and add it to the moves as the E value. You could probably do it in excel.
What type of printer? UM1 or UM2 or other?
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