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Hi Andrew,

i would really suggest that you download the trial of MoI. In MoI it is very easy to create
solid letter shapes, either by using MoI's command "Draw solid/Text" which gives you
plenty of options, or by simply importing pdf/ai outlines of your letters. You don't have
to use the loft command for this.

Regards
Stefan

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Well, for curved or rounded front faces of your letter then this is i a different
story... Hope i understood the use of lofting, in your case, properly...

Regards
Stefan

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Hi Andrew, the term "Loft" in MoI means to construct a surface between 2 or more cross section curves, as shown here:
http://moi3d.com/3.0/docs/moi_command_reference7.htm#loft

If I understand your question correctly, you are asking about converting 2D curves into solids by what in MoI is called Extrude, as in here:
http://moi3d.com/3.0/docs/moi_command_reference7.htm#extrude

So to put your question in terms used by MoI, I think you're asking if MoI is able to directly extrude a solid box from a line segment. The answer to that is no - you would need to make a rectangle curve first to extrude to a box. You can use the Construct > Offset command to generate a rectangle from a line segment though, and then extrude that to a box.

For generating text as others mention above it's easiest to use Draw solid > Text will generate solid text from a font.

- Michael

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Michael
First, thank you for your reply. Next, apologies for the delay in my reply as I had been expecting an email to alert me that my forum query had been answered.
In any case, your information and links are quite useful.
Andrew

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Hi Andrew, sorry yeah the e-mail notification part of the forum software isn't very reliable. Someday I would like to work on fixing that up.

- Michael

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Stefan,
Many thanks for your reply. Sorry for my delay in thanking you, but I assumed I would be informed by email the someone had responded to my post.
Regards
Andrew

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Hi Andrew,

no problem, have fun with MoI! :-)

Regards
Stefan

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