Firstly, I'm a total novice, so please excuse me if this is a basic question.
I'm designing a backboard for a neon flex sign which will contain text and a surrounding circle. I'm trying to calculate how much of the neon Flex I'll need to order to fit my design/tweak the size of my design to ensure it works with the dimensions of the flex neon LED strip.
There's two things I need to consider 1) I need the width of the text to be about 7mm so when its etched via laser cutter or CNC router I can set the Neon Flex rope into the groove. 2) I need to know what length of Neon Flex rope to order once the design is complete.
So far I've been eyeballing the width by using a monoline font and measuring the width after setting a font size. Is there an easier way?
Im using Measure path extension to determine the length of each path, but wondering is there a simple way to combine them all so I get a single answer. presently, if I select multiple letters in the text after switching Object to path, i get a result above each letter separately. This might be handy when it comes to cutting, but for now I just need to know the combined total length of the whole design. Can this be done?
Thanks in advance!
