# Put text on rectangle

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/put-text-on-rectangle/39726>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [November 1, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/put-text-on-rectangle/39726 "2025-11-01T23:09:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![daveh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@daveh](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/daveh)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/put-text-on-rectangle/39726/1 "2025-11-01T23:09:19Z")

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I have a rectangle extruded 2mm. I want to add text to it. It feels impossible to do. My steps below will probably sound crazy and you’ll shake your head because there’s got to be an

1. I make the text and it turns into like 200 dots. Is that normal?
2. Now I go to extrude and there are the letters a, d, o, g and such, that are two parts because of the holes. Do I really have to go through and unselect every hole before extruding?
3. After clicking all holes and extrude, I now have to move the text to the top of the rectangle, so I try Align. Now I have to select every letter one by one, maybe even edges too. Is that really how it’s done?
4. So I stop doing that, because that’s silly to do, so then I try to align the text myself by moving it with the arrows.
5. Then I go to export it as a .3mf. I open it in BambuLabs and it’s a big blob of crap.

Please help me ☹

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**Author:** ![Xdrakosha](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.shapr3d.com/xdrakosha/32/24881_2.png) [@Xdrakosha](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/Xdrakosha)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2025, 11:18pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/put-text-on-rectangle/39726/2 "2025-11-01T23:18:46Z")

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1. Yes
2. Yes
3. Make the text there you need it so you don’t need to move anything

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**Author:** ![daveh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/85e7bf/32.png) [@daveh](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/daveh)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 12:02am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/put-text-on-rectangle/39726/3 "2025-11-02T00:02:22Z")

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Thank you. Your time doing this is appreciated.

Update:  
Unfortunately, it goes from this in Shapr3d, to this blob in BambuLabs. Instead of making an indent with letters I’m bumping them out. On that bottom image I clicked on one of the 50 objects, which was one of the letter a’s, because it’s not obvious this is a pile of letters.

 ![fdsa](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/uploads/shapr3d/original/3X/a/5/a5001f90d40d3b4ed06eb58ea9243fe0be87af68.png)

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**Author:** ![SCALEMODEL](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@SCALEMODEL](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/u/SCALEMODEL)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2025, 6:58pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/put-text-on-rectangle/39726/4 "2025-11-02T18:58:51Z")

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Hard to say why it did that. If you could post your file someone can look into it.

I know that happens when you didn’t union and separated it in the slicer.

Maybe try STL vs 3MF