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What does Onshape have against the numbers 0,4,6,8,9 and the letters A,B,D,O,P,Q and sometimes R
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Not sure if this a bug or I'm missing something on why these characters won't shell both faces to create and outline. Anyone care to offer suggestion?
As the title suggests seems consistent with certain characters. R is an odd ball working in one font and not the other.
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All of those characters you point out have inner loops in their sketches. The R in the Bathazar font (your second example does not have an inner loop so that's why it is "an odd ball" :)
When you try and shell the 0 it will fail. This can be verified on a simple sketch of two concentric circles.
Instead, use an Extrude thin!
Ah, thanks for pointing that blantently obvious oversite out. LOL. So my dilema is that I was trying to make something that was simple to update the text without reworking features later on down in the tree. Thin actually helps that as I can select the whole text sketch rather than individual faces which was better than selecting individual lines/edges. But alas thin fell short a by a hair by thinning to the wrong side of the characters with holes in them. maybe an outline text feature script exists?
It would be nice if there was a way to display all of the available fonts in Onshape somewhere, maybe in help or as a web page some where. Unless that already exists, of course.
I did figure out how to make an outline text that the characters can be updated fairly painlessly for the most part… uses a text featurescript to start and it creates a sketch for each character. Used extrude for the main character thicker than desired final thickness by some predetermined shell thickness, shell each character one face then an extrude cut the back face sketches the shell thickness and it leaves a nice out line.
I agree.
If this were raised as an improvement request, I'd vote for it.
You want a software feature to create all the text fonts in solid objects? Here's the list.
I was looking for a way to quickly examine what each of the fonts look like - much like the fonts applet in Windows.
As it is now, we have to create some text in Onshape, change it's font name to an available option just to see what it looks like. Rinse and repeat for each font that you might consider.
A public document - maintained by Onshape - that catalogs the fonts would make a lot of sense. Seems like a good reason to create an Improvement Request.
Apparently some others would of liked it as well. https://cad.onshape.com/documents?nodeId=3&resourceType=filter&q=_all:fonts%20type:all%20foundin:w%20when:latest
The native text feature certainly leaves a lot to the imagination when creating text from scratch.
Here's a start on the number side. a lot to go. <sigh>
It could have been worded better, but I just submitted the IR below. Looks like it needs to be approved so it may take a while to show up.
Here's a visual on the numbers.
Thanks!