Wedding Word Cutouts

Create a selection of letter cutouts as a perfect gift for families, friends, on your wedding day, or even as a cool name stand.

I have seen these used at weddings on head tables, on family mantle pieces (surnames).

The nice thing about this is the design can be modified as you like, and you can even add shapes such as hearts, birds, balloons, etc.

Things needed:

Additional Example

Firstly check out the video above on how to make the pieces, but if you are struggling to follow along, use these steps.

In ArtCAM Express software, create a material block the dimension of the design you want to cut

(In the example above I used 200mm Height & 300mm Width and a material thickness of 50mm. (This defines the size of the material using))

Next create some text (tip: use a big bold font)
Using the kerning option move the text closer together so the letters overlap each other
Then ungroup all the text

Important: Ungroup all the text (this is so that when you weld the vectors together you don't lose the centers of 0,P,Q,R,D,A etc)

Select all the vectors, apart from the centers of O,P,Q,D,A,B etc
Once ungrouped, weld the letters together, this makes sure that the letters are all nicely joined (refer to video)

Important: Make sure that the letters cross each other in the kerning or it wont weld properly together.

If the text does not have a flat bottom you will need to create one, otherwise it will just fall over

The final step is to simply machine the part, to do this;