Self-intersecting surfaces are created by the Text tool

[gyorgy.bozoki]

I added a text object to my model and noticed that some of the letters are created as self-intersecting surfaces / solids (depending on the option I used for the text).

Is this normal?

In this example, “N” is the problematic letter; I duplicated the border of the surface to see the generated curve. (The font is Bahnschrift SemiBold Condensed, which I believe I have through Photoshop. (?))

Is there anything that I can do to prevent this (apart from duplicating the borders and manually cleaning up the self-intersecting parts)?

[scottd (Scott Davidson)]

Yes, this can be a problem with any fonts. They are not made perfect. With Printing these poor geometry ignores these problems. But with 3d modeling the problems need to be fixed.

I use Curve Boolean and select outside all the fonts to create new outlines that are cleaned up. Normally just takes a few seconds.

[Normand (Jakob Normand)]

@scottd

problem with any fonts

Well, not any font, but many fonts A lot of font designers seem to be sloppy as hell. Even some commercial fonts have terrible underlying line-work
-Jakob

[gyorgy.bozoki]

@scottd Thank you, that’s good to know. I’ll just generate curves and clean them up, thank you for the advice.