Selected text and entered in characters and chose font
Selected each placed letter and extruded until one last letter would not extrude
Confused as all other letters extrude and the error is contradictory as other letters extruded except the one in the video.
Any ideas on how to resolve this?
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Try extruding the Y first? Sometimes order of extrusion matters for some reason. Also zoom into the Y and make sure nodes do not cross over one another.
Look at the top control point. Both of the red lines points down, which is wrong it’s overlapping. One should point up and one down. When I deleted that control point I was able to extrude.
I have tried to extrude the y first, but the error persists.
A capital Y worked, but the lowercase y did not.
I do not see any overlapped points or anything out of the ordinary. It’d be nice if Shaper could give a bit more details on errors like this as at first inspection there doesn’t appear to be anything wrong with a device installed font?
Thank you all for the tips, it seems that this is something that Shapr3d could use some polish on for the UX.
This is a great example of what I would hope to see as a small example when this error is thrown. That is helpful ( though I still am not able to figure out how to ‘fix’ the area in order to extrude yet.
As for the font being incorrectly designed, I’m not sure if this is what end users would expect, but rather to see a helpful error and example solution video on how to move forward with their problem. It wasn’t clear at all what the issue was at face value so other users would get stuck like I did on this.
I found the two points that were causing the issue, thanks to your help, but I still don’t understand why that worked when other points seem to be inside the bounds of the font and some are outside?
Video showing how to fix based on images provided above
So this isn’t just a font thing, font is just an illustration/sketch of a letter. This happens also with SVG artwork that was converted and imported.
Other CAD programs have some kind of Curve Analysis tool, but even with that in this case overlap is so small and font has so much curvature it will overwhelm you with data.
The new feature you want in Shapr3d is to implement curve overlap indicator. Fonts for me it’s easy to figure out with the triangulate method.
Vector Artwork import is even more time consuming.
