KariF

I'm looking to try to create stencil bridges in Designer but am having a hard time finding a tool that will work with curved lines or shapes. Illustrator has a curvature tool option that does this. Has this been added to a version of Designer?

This is helpful when I re-attempt it. Thank you!

I was reading through old posts looking for a video tutorial ref for bridges and found this. Just wondering if a bridge checker has been implements since this post?

I tried to laser cut the file as is and it didn't work. It cuts out the entire form of each block. Perhaps I should ask in a Lightburn forum (software that prepares the file for laser cutting) instead?

This concept yes but not separated. I would like the end result to look like a Lego block if you were to use inks to fill in the part that is black on all sides, but still have the connectors on top as part of it. See following....

This would a stencil. The stars are cut out. If you used ink, it would just leave the design of the stars

I know on some of the designs I will have to separate circular shapes from outside borders but just wondered if it was possible to create a stencil easily from the design? Is there a way in AD to invert or have it cut out the larger areas instead? If I can only do it with the existing file design, just tabs (using Lightburn)? Thank you in advance. I'm new to this.

video1.html First attempt - video1 Second attempt - video 2 video2.htmlvideo2.html

The font name is called Cupcake and was from Creative Fabrica. Any of the french accents available. I'll take some screengrabs and a quick video of trying to use the existing ones. I ended up vertically moving the remaining letters to the left and it worked but time consuming. I tried various searches on Google to use unicode but when I toggle with that particular font it didn't work. I wanted to use a scripty font and realized about an hour in that wasn't like to find that you could also combine accents with.

Can you refresh my memory on placement . I'm trying with another word and other accents. It says click for insert point in text. I do that and then I double click to add an accent but it removes the letter. I try to highlight the letter and double click to add the accent but that doesn't work either. What am I missing?

This has been a huge help and thank you for explaining so simply. Love this forum!!

Thank you soooo much! I'm having an issue with loops. Will attach the letter j when I use the Separate Curves command.

No I want them to touch each other. Like being able to drag the dot or accent down to touch the top of the letter.

As an example, see attachment. I am cutting chipboard sayings and the closest I could get to attaching dot of i to i was coverting to curves (with a different font) and moving nodes to connect it. I didn't do the node change in the attached example. There must be a simpler way? Thank you in advance for your help. testing_dotoni.afdesign