How to best extrude highly detailed custom fonts

[Johnsonio2]

Hello, 

I was using a custom font downloaded from dafont.com. It features shading and stippling. When extruded, each stippled mark creates a single body, so for a phrase with 13 characters, it created 2323 bodies. You can imagine this created quite the strain on the processing power of my computer. The ridiculous amounts of bodies aside, when trying to engrave toolpath this, it would be nearly impossible to individually select each body to be cut, or would at least take a lot of time. Any suggestions for how to simplify the font while maintaining the integrity, or how to best toolpath this? 

this is the font

https://www.dafont.com/organical.font

[Warmingup1953]

I hate to be the one to say it......Choose another font! I assume it's just a fun project? perhaps sculpt inside the offset if your heart is set on this style?

[g-andresen]

Hi,

I do not want the font on my system.
Therefore:

please explode the text (rightclick > explode) and share the f3d file

günther

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@Johnsonio2 wrote:

Any suggestions for how to simplify the font

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Many repeated letters.

Model your own clean geometry from scratch using the image as reference.

[Johnsonio2]

UPDATE: Thank you all for your feedback and advice. 

Here's what I ended up doing, for anyone who comes across this thread with a similar issue. 

Instead of extruding the font, I extruded the geometry of the sign, and created the text on top as a sketch and DID NOT EXTRUDE IT. 

This made the engrave toolpathing much more feasible and created a great result. This, of course, makes the depth of the engraving uncustomizable, but for my needs, it was more than suitable. Here is a picture of the final result, for those interested! I also included some screengrabs of the file in the design and manufacture workspaces. 

[g-andresen]

Hi,

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@Johnsonio2 wrote:

 This, of course, makes the depth of the engraving uncustomizable, 

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The engraving depth is determined by the angle of the V-bit and the distance between the bounding contours.
I do not know if Fusion allows a limitation to a maximum depth (flat depth).

Perhaps @seth.madore  can say something about this.

günther