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Taper in emboss command

Taper in emboss command

I would really like to see the emboss command feature an option to automatically create the emboss with a taper, as shown in the picture attached. This would be really useful when creating models with embossed text for 3D-printing, so you can avoid getting overhangs perpendicular to the Z-axis in the printing chamber within the letters, and thus omit the support structure (that you later have to remove by hand) in the 3d print. In the picture attached this is achieved by first using the emboss command on the sketch with the text, and then use the draft angle command to make the walls in each embossed letter stand at a 25° angle to the emboss direction. This took me 2 hours to get to work on all the letters. With a command like suggested it would have taken a couple of minutes.

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bbrownellLS4J4
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This would be nice to have for cast or injection molded parts where you add part number, rev etc for easy identification.  Protolabs will flag your parts when you use their injection molding review with a required change to add draft to these features.  It really is a waste of engineer's time to go through and select all of those faces to apply a draft.  There is already a draft option when using an extrude so I would think the code already exists to implement this.

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