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How to Query Text for Extrusion to avoid Inner Empty Area(s)?

brian_guanbrian_guan Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
Hi all,

Apologies for a noob question. I am trying to learn FeatureScript and I am stuck with figuring out how to properly sketch, query, and extrude text, especially those letters with inner void area like the letter 'O' or worse, the symbol '©'.

See my example:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/dfe47c38f8c2d31762a5130d/w/b447e2582ee3a8273fda859c/e/c3dfa53c2417e08b2097b9e5

You will see that the inner areas are selected too, thus the extrude looks odd.

At this point, I don't need the sophistication of something like the excellent Curved Surface Text 

Just want to figure out the proper way to do this.

Thanks.

Comments

  • NeilCookeNeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 5,681
    Search qSketchRegion in the help it has an option to not fill inner loops. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEAI
  • brian_guanbrian_guan Member Posts: 13 ✭✭
    Thanks Neil.  I set filterInnerLoops to true in my example doc. It is better, but not a complete solution.  The inner 'C' in the copy right symbol is now completely missing.  Is this a bug?


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