I am new to 3D printing and am trying to Iabel a part that I’ve created. I have included a picture of my part to this point. As you can see, I was able to extrude the CEX-5 into the part and then use a Boolean subtraction to recess the characters. This was possible because each of these characters consists of only one continuous curve. Now, the 8 and the 0 are giving me real trouble. How would I extrude these characters back into the object? When I do it now, only the curve itself, and not the area between the curves (which is what I’m interested in as it is the actual character here) extrudes. Please let me know how to proceed. I’ve been using the _Fin (Extrude Curve Normal to a Surface) command.
I would normally boolean difference the smaller inside shapes from the numbers before I boolean difference the main shape. Sometimes this will fail due to co-planar surfaces - which can be easily fixed.
Keith www.cadwax.com
(UK Rhino reseller / Scripting and Support)
I think I understand what you mean. And I tried that, except that I am only able to extrude the curve itself, not the area within the curve, so there is nothing to subtract the inner portions from. Does that makes sense? So if I were to extrude the continuous outside curve of the eight, I would only get the line that is the curve as an extruded object. It would be hollow. Let me know if you need clarification and I’ll take a screenshot or two and post it here.
I think I’ve included an uploaded version of my file here: ABS_EX_508_Ford_Apex_Forum_Upload.3dm (156.3 KB)I’ll try to upload the file.
Up until now, I’ve used this method. However, I changed tac because the text was being autoscaled to the size of the part that I was labeling. How did you keep the flowed text the same size as the original text object?
