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-Text to CNC information and instructions +====== Text to CNC information and instructions. ====== 
-The easiest way to generate G-code online for your engravings. + 
 +=====The easiest way to generate G-code online for your engravings. =====
  
 With "Text to CNC" you can create a CNC program out of a text in seconds. No installation, no registration. Generate G-code directly on our website.  With "Text to CNC" you can create a CNC program out of a text in seconds. No installation, no registration. Generate G-code directly on our website. 
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 We hope that this free tool will help you.  We hope that this free tool will help you. 
  
-Step by step instructions:  +  - Type in the text you want in the box "Text". Start by deleting the predefined text "My Text" 
-1. Type in the text you want in the box "Text". Start by deleting the predefined text "My Text"  +  Enter the height and width you want the text to have when it is converted to G-code.If you choose a font that contains arcs, the width will be disabled. That's because texts containing real (G2/G3) arcs must maintain aspect ratio when resizing. 
-2. Enter the height and width you want the text to have when it is converted to G-code.  +  In the box "Rapid height Z" enter the Z value that the cutter will go up to between the contours that forms the text 
-If you choose a font that contains arcs, the width will be disabled. That's because texts containing real (G2/G3) arcs must maintain aspect ratio when resizing.  +  In the box "Contour depth Z" enter the Z value that the cutter will go down to when cutting out letters.  
-3. In the box "Rapid height Z" enter the Z value that the cutter will go up to between the contours that forms the text +  In the box "Decimals", select how many decimals you need for the coordinates in your CNC program.  
-4. In the box "Contour depth Z" enter the Z value that the cutter will go down to when cutting out letters.  +  Select the font you want the text to have. 
-5. In the box "Decimals", select how many decimals you need for the coordinates in your CNC program.  +  - Click the button "Create CNC". 
-6. Select the font you want the text to have +  - Your G-code wil now aper in the textbox. Click the "Save as." button to save it as a file, or copy the G-code direktly from the textbox
-7. Click the button "Create CNC" +
-8. Your G-code wil now aper in the textbox. Click the "Save as." button to save it as a file, or copy the G-code direktly from the textbox+
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-[[Go to the Text to CNC webpage]] +
-[[http://microtechstelladata.com/OnlineTools.aspx|Go to the Text to CNC webpage]].+
  
  
 +[[http://microtechstelladata.com/OnlineTools.aspx|Go to the Text to CNC webpage]].
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