Glyfify

Converter

Convert text to DXF

DXF is a contour format: it carries geometry, not paint. The export traces the outline of every letter as closed polylines that a CAM tool can read directly — so the file you download is cuttable, not a picture of text.

Convert text to DXF

What the DXF file contains

Each glyph is converted from its font outline to polyline geometry and written as a POLYLINE entity, which is the entity every CAM package and old AutoCAD release agrees on. Curves are flattened to a tolerance you control with the accuracy setting.

  • Closed contours, including the counters — the hole in an “o” stays a hole.
  • One layer per letter (g0, g1, g2 …) when “separate glyphs” is on, so you can select, order or suppress letters individually in your CAM software.
  • A real unit header: pick millimetres, centimetres or inches and the file declares it, so the drawing opens at the right size instead of needing a scale guess.
  • No colours, no fills — DXF has no use for them.

Fill and outline become geometry, not paint

Because there is no paint in DXF, the fill and outline switches are read as “what geometry to emit”. Fill alone gives you the letterform itself. Outline alone gives a band of the stroke width centred on the letter’s edge — both of its borders exist as contours, which is what you want for an engraved or scored line. Turning both on emits their union: one solid from the band’s outer edge down to the counters.

Overlapping letters, welded

Script and display faces overlap their neighbours, and a cutter that meets an internal seam will cut through it. The weld-contours option unions the glyph outlines first, so a joined-up word leaves the machine as one continuous profile with the seams dissolved.

Questions

Does the DXF open in AutoCAD, Fusion 360 and LibreCAD?
Yes. The export uses POLYLINE entities and a declared unit header, which is the most widely supported combination — it reads in AutoCAD, Fusion 360, LibreCAD, QCAD, SolidWorks and the CAM front-ends of most laser and router controllers.
Is the text still editable in the DXF?
No, and that is the point. The letters are converted to outline geometry, so the file no longer depends on the font being installed anywhere. If you need to change the wording, change it here and export again.
What size will the drawing be?
The font size is read as geometry units and the unit you choose is written into the file header. At the millimetre default, a font size of 100 gives letters 100 mm tall from baseline to cap.
Are my text and fonts uploaded anywhere?
No. Shaping, geometry and file writing all happen in the browser tab, and the font catalog is served as static files from this site. Nothing about your text leaves your machine.