Keychain Text Automation

xphilip

Looking to automate the creation of these keychains. 

The input is a text string, but then it gets tricky.
Each character in its correct location needs to be extruded to different height - no idea how to do this, this is the sticking point. 
After that it's fairly easy (i think) - offset the vertical faces to ensure that I can then boolean all the bodies together and export as 3MF/STL

Some smart person here surely knows how to do this

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/94898019595c6cb408523bed/w/8957b82c6872db5bf9d83dbd/e/2d597c127db87b4415e4e860?renderMode=0&uiState=62bdaf32affec83631318d53

MichaelPascoe

Hi xphilip, this is possible. I do have a few questions for you:

1. Are you trying to do this with FeatureScript, standard part studio, or configured part studio?
2. Does the font ever change?
3. The words change I assume?
4. Do you want only the model automated or the part automatically machined as well?

_anton

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/99b28d09e5ddcf6b6a4b6bcb/w/4a96278ce4403e834bc02b35/e/1937b469a25a6ee6c21715e1

MichaelPascoe

I like @_anton's response 

xphilip

The Onshape community delivers!!!! (ok an employee )

@_anton - THANK YOU!!!!!! (MichaelPascoe - I know you were just pipped at the post -sorry, but also thank you )

I will leave this post here as of course all can learn from Antons solution.

Philip

_anton

Hey, I make things in Onshape too.

_anton

(Okay, I reworked it a bit so now it can handle letters like 'i'. Sketch one letter at a time, extrude to a random height, shift to have the right horizontal overlap.)

(It was bothering me.)