I appreciate the responses, guys. Bob Moore hit it on the head. I had been using Artcam for years, but just began using this version recently and this was the first time for vcarving. Missed a setting to simplify nodes. Checked it and improved the results 90%. Times New Roman is a clean font, but has to be converted to curves to vcarve and that process created a poor node setup. And I am using Mach3 and have been for many years.