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total wet baby text question
mike_learned
Member Posts: 4 ✭
Hey!
So if you read the description right, I'm a total newb to most CAD applications. I'm a 3d Printing enthusiast who jumped on to try and make fidget spinners (insert exacerbated grunt here). Anyway, my work wanted me to make one with text on the different tri arms of a spinner. I'm trying to add the text as raised 1-2 mm off each arm, but every time I place text there and extrude, it adds it as a hole.
If I'm thinking this through correctly, should I be making seperate sketches, extruding each sketch seperately then adding them together? Or is there something else I should try?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
So if you read the description right, I'm a total newb to most CAD applications. I'm a 3d Printing enthusiast who jumped on to try and make fidget spinners (insert exacerbated grunt here). Anyway, my work wanted me to make one with text on the different tri arms of a spinner. I'm trying to add the text as raised 1-2 mm off each arm, but every time I place text there and extrude, it adds it as a hole.
If I'm thinking this through correctly, should I be making seperate sketches, extruding each sketch seperately then adding them together? Or is there something else I should try?
Thanks in advance.
Mike
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Answers
Welcome to Onshape. You may want to ensure the direction in which, you are extruding and the option you are using to extrude Add or Remove.
For reference, here is a link to a text extrude document I created : https://cad.onshape.com/documents/58ed10afe8858e0f72be9591/w/44b470947c1d58c8690b608c/e/bf9917b555dd5d722c93e614
We also have videos on extruding : https://www.onshape.com/videos/extrude
If you are facing any further challenges, post a link to your document and folks can get a better idea of what the issue is.