# Video example - Face or sketch filling can’t be extruded

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**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 2:34pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/video-example-face-or-sketch-filling-can-t-be-extruded/36343 "2025-02-01T14:34:44Z")\
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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:** [February 2, 2025, 7:13pm UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/video-example-face-or-sketch-filling-can-t-be-extruded/36343/8 "2025-02-02T19:13:00Z")

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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.

Shapr Response

> [@Fix Text Extrusion bugs ant](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/fix-text-extrusion-bugs/28054/2):
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> Hi Bob, Thanks for summarising the request, this is noted. To share a little bit more background info on this feature. When we released the text tool we balanced between supporting only a handful of fonts vs including all system and installed fonts and we went with the latter, but this added the risk that we won’t be able to handle all the font types perfectly. The workaround currently is as you mentioned to manually fix the sketch issues, or moving forward with a simpler font type. To manage…

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