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[adamhardwick610]

Hi, im having a major nightmare trying to sort this horrible CAD drawing out. 

I converted a STL and I noticed the lettering wasn't flush with the model, so if it was printed it wouldn't be touching anything.

Could any advice how I can fix it, the software keep crashing so I can't do much.

I hope the photos explain what I mean.

Also, if any could help how to separate all the text so I can align it would be much appreciated. As you can see it's not pleasing on the eye.

[TheCADWhisperer]

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@adamhardwick610 wrote:

trying to sort this horrible CAD drawing out. 

I converted a STL…

I hope the photos explain what I mean.

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Why are you using stl rather than native geometry?

Does Shift Win S and Ctrl v (Windows commands for screen image and paste) work on your computer?

[adamhardwick610]

Hi, the file is downloaded so I converted it. Yes screenshot do work but it
was quicker to take photos on my phone at the time.

[jeff_strater]

@adamhardwick610 - I do not see any crash reports from your account.  When Fusion crashes, are you sending those in?

My suspicion, just from the images, is that Fusion is not, in fact, crashing, but you are asking it to do some very complex modeling, and that will take some time.  It looks like you have converted a mesh model into a BRep model, using the "faceted" method.  On a mesh this size, that will produce a very complex BRep, and any modeling operations on that complex BRep will be very slow.  This method is not recommended.

In the case of the text, I would recommend correcting that in the mesh, not converting to BRep and trying to correct them on a dense BRep model (or, as @TheCADWhisperer suggests, re-model using native geometry).  If your goal is only to repair and then 3D print this model, I would not convert to BRep at all - there is no need for it - you 3D print a model as a mesh anyway, so you get no benefit (and lots of cost) by converting to BRep.