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Closing the gap in an 'A'

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:29:28 GMT

Hi there, I'm sure this is an easy solution but I'm completely new to CAD in general and F360 in particular. Made a block of 'letters' and it worked perfectly except for the inner portion of the A - I can't get it to 'fill in'. The small parts of the B worked and the D as well (as you can see from the image of the finished product) but the A is a mystery. Is there an easy way to do this, even by drawing a triangle possibly?

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

SaeedHamza — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:38:05 GMT

Hi,

use the text in sketch

here is a screencast for it

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/community/screencast/f8631063-6cde-41a4-9d54-d8745e464f5b

Regards, Saeed

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:38:51 GMT

I did - that's how I created every letter. But when I extrude at a negative value (to create a void rather than an extrusion) the small part of the A doesn't fill in.

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

Anonymous — Tue, 09 May 2017 23:47:37 GMT

It was the font. I just tried it with Arial and it worked fine. So something up with the particular font I was using I guess.

Would still be nice to know how to fill in that empty triangle if someone can offer an idea, but for the purposes of this piece it's solved.

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

SaeedHamza — Wed, 10 May 2017 00:05:16 GMT

That happens, make the extrusion of the negative value as a new body, then combine cut

that sometimes solves this

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

daniel_lyall — Wed, 10 May 2017 00:28:46 GMT

What font was it ??

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

TrippyLighting — Wed, 10 May 2017 00:29:29 GMT

You can simply select the unwanted faces and delete them 😉

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

SaeedHamza — Wed, 10 May 2017 00:36:06 GMT

@TrippyLighting I guess he meant that the triangle is not appearing, and he want it to do so ( Faces that you deleted )

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

TrippyLighting — Wed, 10 May 2017 06:32:42 GMT

Oops 😉

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

etfrench — Wed, 10 May 2017 08:43:43 GMT

Explode the text, then either use the coincident command or extend/trim to close the geometry.

Re: Closing the gap in an 'A'

Anonymous — Wed, 10 May 2017 13:23:42 GMT

Gill Sans Extra Bold