Darn that was like a thousand years ago when I had access to a burn table. You ask me to make something and I could get it done one way or another. It took some line drawing. I would start out with a font like script mt bold and make a part with the sketch text.
Then I would make the drawing and scale it to the right dimensions since it was easier to do when they said can you make it bigger.
I would then make it into a dxf file, that I could either make a new part our of it, or take into the cnc programing software.
Some time in there I think that I had to explode the text. I would then add lines and join the letters together to make sure that they would make a single solid part like I was looking for.
(I had to do this to get to the answer)
The jerking and crashing of the table is caused by the many lines that it takes to make some of the text. Your cnc programing software should have something in there to smooth out some of the lines, or to remove duplicate lines.
Some of the manufacturers say all you need is a pdf or dxf to load into the machines to be able to cut. I would rather go with the G code that you can enter. As you are writing the code or going threw the steps to have the computer write the code for you, you can find all kinds of skips dips and jagged lines that may need to be repaired or redrawn to make the machine run smooth.
