Hey everyone, I want to create a stencil for the common elements I use when journaling. Reference picture attached. Now that I figured out how to work with text in FreeCAD, I hit the unexpected but in hindsight obvious roadblock of finding a font that can be printed “negatively”? I am not sure how to properly word it, but the gist is that the text can’t have parts disconnected from the rest of the stencil. Check the uppercase B and D letters in the picture, i.e. Dafont.com has the Stencil category, but everything in there is pretty military looking. So my question is: Does anyone know of a freely available font for such a use case?

  • Mechanismatic@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    Not what you’re asking for, but I’d recommend using a laser cutter with a sheet of acrylic if you can get access to one since you’ll get a better quality stencil than 3D printing one. A vinyl cutter like a Cricut or Silhouette machine might also be able to do a better job of it on something like chipboard if you don’t have access to a laser cutter.

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      3 days ago

      Once I have a space for a workshop or live somewhere near a maker space, a laser cutter is definitely on my bucket list. Not available at the moment.