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Nice one Burrman! I need to take a look at viacad.
Was also considering a potential 'type and go'
route from aspire or v-carve. They call it 'prism text' for seperate shapes.
Export as stl?

https://youtu.be/5tq45xBitXopl

I noticed on youtube you might use Bobcad/cam is there a route that way?

[Obviously once tool paths set up for certain letter thicknesses it should be quick.]

- stefano

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Another tracks with Blend curves so you can take any Bulge you want...so less or more elegant result! :)
Sweep or NetWork for the long Part
Sweep or NetWork for the Foot
Planar for the triangle



PS I don't know if the Gray Thema by Cody is less or more readable than the original UI ?

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muscle memory test...~23 seconds...

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"""""I noticed on youtube you might use Bobcad/cam is there a route that way?"""""

For actually manufacturing it, yes... a toolpath that cuts that from fonts/pockets.

Can export a simulation of the cut as stl too.

But not model it for visual. (Differently than Michael showed)

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Hi Stefano,
Took a quick look at the Vectric stuff (aspire) and it looks like they offer the toolpath option too. So it's not "type out text" like that. It's a toolpath called "v-caving"....

The other thing these CAM packages like Vectric Aspire or BobCad have is "embossing".

So in BobCad, they have "BobArt" and i can emboss geometry using arcs and lines and angles, which produces this too....

But the result of these will be poly's, not NURBS.

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Hi Burrman,

Was just thinking the approach of Michael's is great on single letters or a few letters
...but what about if there is a whole paragraph of text where many of the letters could be
quite small?

Points noted about STL* and I've discounted that route...
so now wondering, could a bitmap>3d route work nice e.g.
max's heightmap?



Greyscale bitmaps of some "I" files attached. This was sent to me from one of the technical
guys at Cadlink Engravelab/Signlab software. They don't do stl but do can do
bitmaps of toolpaths easy and fast...

As I don't have heightmap installed and had issues knowing where to install it, hoping someone can try...

Cheers

Stefano

*STL thread here if anyone interested: http://moi3d.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=MOI&msg=8860.1

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<< but what about if there is a whole paragraph of text where many of the letters could be
quite small?

Just make one alphabet with your font wished! ;)

So you can write any text at any size!

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""""""but what about if there is a whole paragraph of text where many of the letters could be
quite small?""""

I think you just need to move into poly apps. Just about ALL of them just do chisel text naturally...

Heightmap route wont give you very crisp results and i believe you would run into the same thing. Parts will be hard to achieve. Just look at a capital N in the times new roman and look at michaels solution against it...

You could make an attempt as frenchy said and take a month to model every charactor of the times new roman uoper and lower case.

But "paragraphs" would still be pretty tedious...

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Frenchy & Burrman,

Thanks for your feedback. I like some of the workflow here

http://www.rushfx.net/chisel-type-using-spline-fields-in-cinema-4d-from-cineversity/

(Slightly out of budget)

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Maybe you can use the free Fusion 360 and export as Step format for MOI? ;)

But alas you must "draw it" first as in Moi! --- maybe with more easy Fillets...not sure in this case... :)

I just made here the beginning :D (then imported as Step in Moi)

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Hi,
It's possible in Moi using sweep but requires splitting profile into sections and in some cases extending them.
Trimming is tricky but I used Michael's FlowExtendSurf script in places to help with this.
Cheers
Barry

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FlowExtendSurf
https://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=9747.7

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For MoI serif font Times New Roman, used the sweep technique with two 45 degree lines, for D and R. Manual trimming required. Did C with Merge. The 3d letters look good.
- Brian

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Cheers chaps will take a look at some of these routes but not likely to dive into fusion at moment.
Unless it's easy to get a finished result...

@Brian- I presume setting the 45degree line at a length greater than the widest 'stroke width'
of the letters should cover most shapes and mean minimum extensions required....

Btw...i also challenged a friend (autocad expert user)
with these but he was not confident he could do any faster.
Work in progress!

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Somehow, my custom style colors reverted to default. Colors were easily restored from AppData colors2020...3dm file.
-B

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The more speedy will be to found a 3D Font yet existing and with nurbs export 3D format!

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https://www.adobepress.com/articles/article.asp?p=1743636&seqNum=2

Only 256 - 33 - 2 characters to do. Times 5?, plus unicode, plus spacing + ? :-)

I wonder if Flow could convert the 3D fonts to italics?
Bold?

- Brian

Only about 306,729 +/- fonts exist today, to search. (per one website:-)

Would the 3D font actually be classified as a font?

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