Exploding text is cumbersome

fenton_hs

As far as I can tell, the only way to convert text to geometry (explode) is by exporting them re-importing a sketch. That's a bad workflow and also screws up sizes and origin points. Is there a better way? Or can that be added as a feature? Thanks.

EvanReese

you can create text in a sketch and extrude that. Or are you talking about a logo or some other vector you're importing?

eric_pesty

Maybe a dumb question but why do you need to "explode" the text in the first place?
Depending on what end result you are trying to achieve there might be some alternate workflows.

eric_pesty

For example you could create a text feature in a sketch and then create a new sketch and "use" the geometry from the text...
Again not sure why you would want to but you could...

jonathan_french992

eric_pesty said:

For example you could create a text feature in a sketch and then create a new sketch and "use" the geometry from the text...
Again not sure why you would want to but you could...

The problem for me is when trying to remove material from text, some letters have "island" parts, like "A" and "P". With a tool as described here, it would make it possible to delete those islands before the extrusion process.

eric_pesty

jonathan_french992 said:

The problem for me is when trying to remove material from text, some letters have "island" parts, like "A" and "P". With a tool as described here, it would make it possible to delete those islands before the extrusion process.

Why not just de-select the "islands" when doing the extrude?

Or extruded "as-is" as delete the parts created by these "islands" after the fact (you could even use the "composite selected" feature to automate that part with changing text)



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