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this is just the limitation of the font itself. Font creators do not have the Tangent constraint, so the curves in the font sometimes are not tangent continuous. That works fine for displaying in a Word document, but if you make that font large, those inaccuracies are amplified.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director
Jeff, thanks for the prompt response, however I don't think that's the case here. I've used inkscape (just as example) to type the same text with the same font (even when zooming to considerable size on a 4k monitor there are no sharp edges btw in screen rendering), then export it as svg and import it into a sketch in F360, it comes as a regular text object (not a path), when extruded its shows the same artifacts.
Now, I go back into inkscape, convert the text into path (which breaks it down into individual paths of each letters), and export as SVG again. import into fusion into a sketch (this time, the svg comes as paths as expected correctly), then extruded and it looks perfect:
thanks again!
Hi @ronenYVBNE , I would suggest you use 'Arial Rounded' Font instead of using Regular Arial. I hope it will resolve your issues.
@jeff_strater @ronenYVBNE There does seem to be a problem extruding from a text object. If you explode the text first you get a lot smoother set of curves. Extruded from exploded curves on the right, see attached file.
Mark
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As another test, adding a fillet with Chain enabled doesn't work on the extrusion from a text object!
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@HughesTooling - strange. I was not able to re-create this from scratch. I created one sketch, put the same strings with the same font and size, and then exploded one of them, and extruded both. As near as I can tell, the results are the same (which I would expect - the code goes through the same curve extraction logic for Explode as for Extrude, it just happens discretely for Explode, whereas in Extrude it happens just before the Extrude). So, how did you create your example? What are the differences between my design and yours?
Jeff Strater
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@jeff_strater Think you use a mac? There is a bit of a difference if you try selecting the edge of the O with the fillet command with Chain checked.
Also I created another set of exploded curves on my PC (Windows 8.1) and I can select the whole edge with one click so there's a difference for me. The text object is the middle one and might be different for you on a different machine. File's attached again.
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Here's another example of the difference. Using curvature analysis
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The thread popped up again for me 🙂 was going through the stages, and as noted, if I explode the text before extrusion, the curves are smooth. Arial default font. I'm using F360 on a win10 machine, latest version. Seems to have a difference between the font rendering via direct extrusion, and via exploding first... attached is a picture with one vertex marked, top is direct extrusion, bottom is explode first, both on the same sketch..
thanks, @HughesTooling - I tried it on Windows, and it is definitely worse there. But, using Curvature Combs, I can even see the difference on my Mac version:
Windows:
Mac:
[edit] the Fusion bug for this is: FUS-91151
Jeff Strater
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