That has been adequately pointed by many in this thread. Hi Leo, I definitely agree that workpieces should almost always be planed to flatness and that using individual control over letters is not a good strategy for replacing your planer. In that case you can now group the letter O. The inside of letters like O, or e, or R Will no longer be 'together' If you try to move the O by clicking on the outside, the inside will not move with it. In order to make the text separated you can do a couple of things.ġ) Make each individual letter separately, then place it in positionĢ) Convert to curves as mentioned above - BUT - be careful. One thing a lot of folk do is to surface the top of the board where the text is going to be in order to get that nice flat surface to get the nice text that you want.Īnother possible method is a feature called - 'project to 3D surface' How do you compensate for a not flat board by ungrouping the text? The depth of the text cannot be compensated that way as far as I know? So then I need to ask, WHY is the board not FLAT, and what can you do about it. I like to have the ability to un-group the letters of a word because sometimes if your board is not perfectly flat some letters may be cut deeper than others, by having the ability to un-group you can select just the letters you want to make a little deeper without cutting all the rest, and then you can get them really close to being all the same. The v-carve toolpath works differently with overlapping text compared to overlapping vectors. If you want to v-carve the whole word there is no need to convert it to curves and it can actually be a bad idea depending on the font. If you want to change the letters or the font etc you will need to start again with new text. You can convert it to curves with the icon Gary shows (or right click and choose Convert to Curves from the menu) but note that you will lose the ability to work with the text as actual text. Text is a special type of vector in VCarve that you can perform various operations with such as kerning, bending around curves, changing font etc.

It has the same appearance as grouped vectors but it's not. Is there a way to un-group the word? I appreciate anyone's help.

If I create a word by typing, for exampe: (GOLDEN) and want to V-carve it, when I select the word GOLDEN the whole word is grouped, but if I select to un-group it, it still is grouped.

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