Unable to emboss stretched text with custom font

[leumas12]

Hi everyone,

I have been using this forum for a while and it has already been a huge help so thank you!

The problem I'm now having is this:

I am engraving a company logo on to the outside of a round tube with a custom font.  There are two boxes of text that I am engraving.  The first box works just fine with the "Emboss" tool.  The second line works fine when the "% Stretch" parameter in the text edit window is left at 100%.  When I change the "% Stretch" to 85%, I get the "Self-intersecting loop found in this profile" error message.  I get this error message when I try stretching it to 115% as well.  I changed the font to a standard font and I was able to emboss the text no matter the "% Stretch" value.

The bottom line is Inventor will not emboss text that has a custom font and a modified stretch percentage.  Does anyone know how to fix this?  This line of text must be stretched to match the company logo.

Thanks in advance!

Sam

[mcgyvr · Accepted solution]

That problem has come up before with certain fonts.. 

I have solved issues like that by actually drawing the font with lines/arcs,etc..

yeah its a pain but do it once and its done..

[leumas12]

I was hoping to avoid that but if that's how it's done then that's how it's done.  Thanks mcgyvr!  Kudos given and accepted as solution.

Sam