topic Re: Bug? - extrude error when using specific font. in Fusion Support Forum

Bug? - extrude error when using specific font.

ofer.krupka — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:31:40 GMT

When I try to extrude using specific font (Script MT Bold), I get the following error:

"extrude Error: There was a problem combining geometry together. If attempting a Join/Cut/Intersect, try to ensure that the bodies have a clear overlap (problems can occur where faces and edges are nearly coincident)."

The rest of the fonts are working well (I didn't try all of them of course, but some).

Here is a short video of the bug:

https://youtu.be/wTcFXuHt7eo

Note: I am new in F360, so it might be something that I don't know,
but it doesn't make any sense to me so it seems like a bug.

Re: Bug? - extrude error when using specific font.

jeff_strater — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:37:08 GMT

It's likely this font is just not going to work. Fusion does not have any control over the curves that the font produces, and we've noticed that some fonts are just lower quality than others. If you select the text, right click and choose "Explode Text", it will produce sketch curves. You can then try to isolate which parts of the text are problematic (if those are isolated), and try to clean them up in the sketch.

If you share your design, we can help

Re: Bug? - extrude error when using specific font.

jeff_strater — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 16:39:25 GMT

if you do share the design, please do the Explode first. I just checked, and I do not have that font on my computer

Re: Bug? - extrude error when using specific font.

ofer.krupka — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 17:24:13 GMT

I think it comes with Windows/Office...

I uploaded my project

I don't know if the font will 'pass' to a different PC if it's not installed on the 2nd computer, so I uploaded 2 versions (1 exploded text, 1 as a text).

Maybe this caused the problem (Marked in red)?

But then shouldn't it be static? just like in the center of a O for example.

Here is a different closeup between the letters i-z:

Re: Bug? - extrude error when using specific font.

jeff_strater — Sun, 12 Apr 2020 22:31:35 GMT

Thanks for sharing the design, @ofer.krupka . Yeah, the text version does not bring the font along (I'm on a Mac):

However, the good news is that the exploded version seems to work OK. It works even better if I zoom in and select all the small overlap areas:

I've attached this version. Looks nice!

Re: Bug? - extrude error when using specific font.

ofer.krupka — Sat, 18 Apr 2020 11:04:24 GMT

Thank you so much for all your help!
Next time I will know what to do when I encounter that problem.

The current error message is too general and misleading/confusing.

I think it will be great to add error message specific to that case.