There’s one labeled “STENCIL”, but it’s not a stencil. It doesn’t look like any of them are.
Fundamentally, a stencil font has no free pieces that will fall out. If you cut out a “B” and two inner pieces fell out, when you try to paint through it then it’s going to take a lot of paint through the hole’s volume and not very legible.
There’s non-SHX fonts that are true stencils (SHX makes characters with single cuts, instead of an inner and outer cut. SHX can only be vectored, normal fonts have volume and can be rastered or vectored). But not in SHX. SHX cuts more than twice as fast, and leaves no debris that may be a PITA to get out the honeycomb cells or require manual work to free from their holes.
There’s also two potential types of SHX stencil fonts- ones where the inners of “OBDRP46890” are attached with a tab at only one point, and more conventionally two opposing tabs. Right now I need the single-tab version, although most use cases prefer two opposing tabs
Why not just use a SHX font with tabs? That way, you can choose the size and placement of the tabs. It’s a workaround, but would give you the results you are looking for.
Manual placement of tabs in the appropriate place is too inefficient. It can’t scale past very small usage.
A better way to do that is convert to Path, Node Edit, and delete segments. It’s more accurate, but still very unscalable.
The goal here is to have a true stencil font to just do what is needed. It’s pretty straightforward to just have another SHX font here.
If you want to make a stencil, those types of sources will not work for you, since you will have cut the thickness of your laser beam and it will be impossible for you to use it.
What I recommend is that if you can’t find a source online that works for you from places like fonts.google.com, you do it by hand for each letter.
What I do is write the text and on another layer I make rectangles to use and cut the letters with Boolean subtraction like in this image, before cutting to the left and after cutting to the right. If you need help with this, just ask me.
The only suitable answer is how to do this with an SHX
Google got me only two useful hits- one was the paid licensed SHX (not an option, this will need to be reused by others as a makerspace.
There was a hit for an answer on the AutoCAD forum about making custom SHX fonts. But I don’t have AutoCAD working on my machine and haven’t quite understood their proposed workfloe would go. The font changed sound pretty straightforward, only a small count of numbers and letters and special chats need editing
In order to create your own, you need to learn how to edit a SHP file, and then compile it to a SHX. When I did it a LONG time ago, you need AutoCAD to decompile a SHX format, or you find a suitable font in the SHP format, and edit it to what you want. Then compile to SHP to SHX
