Hi Dave,
Hopefully I may be able to answer some of your questions as I also use MoI for doing jewellery designs.
With regards Fonts, I usually try sticking to a Sans Serif type like Arial if at all possible.
Obviously this is going to be more dependant on what your customer is after, but if you can, steer them that way.
If you're forced into using a Serif font, try using one where the serifs curve back into the main sections.
The plumper & more rounded the serifs are, the better off you'll be.
When working with text, your best strategy is to always turn the Points on & check if there's any sections that the Curve crosses over itself.
More often than not, you'll have to delete Points to tidy up things or use the Rebuild script option.
You'll very quickly find there's certain fonts you'll never want to use because of the work involved repairing them.
Make a note of what works & you'll then find you have a short list of fonts that you'll mainly use & thus have very few issues with.
With regards to milling, I try to make my larger text to be no more than 0.4mm in depth, small text no more than 0.3mm (0.25mm is fine)
I don't really design much work that requires printing, but I'd still use a similar strategy if required.
Fonts with thin sections are quite often an issue when used as a raised text, less so when they're recessed.
This of course will depend on their overall size, depth-height & font style.
You'll find your main issues are going to be with small text of say about 2mm height or smaller.
The centres of "A, a, B, b, P, p, R" will potentially be either milled away, break loose or wont be milled at all.
Also be aware you still need to have Rhino to do certain types of operations like "Flow Along Surface" as MoI doesn't have this option yet.
HTH, Colin
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