Extrude Character/Text?

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I've got Evolve 2017. Consider the attached picture. It has characters placed at a specific pitch and then extrude/cut through a prism.

To do this one needs to select a stencil font, place a character a very specific position (within a fraction of a mm), and extrude/cut the character through the prism. The pitch is physical (e.g. 16.6 mm) and varies depending on the design. For the life of me I don't see a good way to achieve this in Evolve... and so I'm asking for help/insight.

Any ideas?

mark

 

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  • ArjunA_22390
    ArjunA_22390
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    Hi Mark,

    There is some manual work that is inevitable in this use case. What is your main concern here? The manual placement of each alphabet 16.66mm(or whatever the distance)?

    I tried a few different approaches but the only thing that can be automated is creating a grid of curves that have a particular step size or pitch. I still had to place each alphabet manually either using the Translate tool using snapping or using Align to curve tool.

     

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited January 2017

    The core issue is placing the characters at a fixed physical pitch of my choosing. The character size is determined by the font, the spacing by the geometry of what I'm creating. The 16.6 mm picture happens to the pitch of my LEDs (on a strip) so the characters have to be centered over them.

    Your reported techniques agree with what I found as well. Given that I want to place nearly 200 characters, any automation is a real win, time wise.

    Thanks!

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