That is how I have been doing with regular fonts that will machine the outlines of the fonts. It will take twice as long to machine the simple text that way.
I am not sure that I will even machine my production parts using SW and HSMXpress yet. Just learning the software. I am interested in seeing the HSM tool paths and how that part works on some of my parts. These parts were programmed initially with SheetCam, so kind of rudimentary, but works.
HSM should optimize those types of machining for me.

So, now I know SW needs to work on their text applications. For software like this that is so nice and easy and much faster than Autocad, text just should not be that difficult. Especially since it is so powerful in it's own right for extrusion, wrapping etc. I just knew I was doing something wrong with it or something I wasn't getting, but that isn't the case.