Well in all honesty, I don't really want beveled text at all. What I'm trying to do is actually linked to Greybeard's thread on the CNC Zone and that is to find an easy way to create and then extract the centre line from the 45 deg surface of the text characters, along with the Z depth information. If I can do this easily, it will allow me to do VCarve lettering on my CNC miller. So far, I've come up with a couple of ways to do it, but there always seems to be something that makes the process long winded, although not impossible. I find the tangent circles method is a very time consuming way of doing it manually.
Here's a pic of 1 letter that I've run through the process and simulated in CutViewer.
Martin.