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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)

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.

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

<< 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!

""""""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...

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)

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)

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

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

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

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!

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

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

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?