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I'm looking to make it kind of a side gig but nothing real major. Honestly, I have a love hate relationship with AutoCAD. Penn Foster really put a bad taste in my mouth for it with the lack of true instruction and having to lean on this forum for 90% of my problems while they were getting paid to "teach" me. However, the more I've used it the more I'm really starting to enjoy it. It's just little quirks like this that are aggravating. I messed around with TinkerCAD a little and I'm really trying to learn Fusion 360 but I just don't like fusion after using AutoCAD. It seems like everything is backwards from AutoCAD. I'm gonna take your advice and play with TinkerCAD some more

My thought was I would be able to edit font and change text when needed but obviously I was wrong...lol

Ok I've sussed it now. I had to drag it to the bar/area to the right of the model and paper space tabs, not the bottom of the drawing area where it also snaps to, leading me to believe this was the correct position. Thanks for your response SLW210.

That was nice of you, but what if they need a font change. While it is possible to quickly do the 3D texts in AutoCAD, it is much better to learn to add it with the 3D Printer software, easy changes and adjustments. Just look at the YouTube video I linked in my previous post. No doubt learning to do 3D Text in AutoCAD is going to take some work and practice since you have to start a new to make font changes. Though with proper planning, it works OK. how to make 3d text in autocad | 3d text in autocad

OK so this might sound like a dumb question, but you said you did each character one at a time. Does that mean I'm inputting my text wrong? I'm creating a text box, so therefor when I attempt to extrude or presspull, it's trying to extrude the whole name or number at once

Looks like you need to "dock" the commandline. > Click and drag the command line window to the top or bottom edge of the application window until it snaps into place. This also fixes the F2 issue, should be a separate window when commandline is docked.

I thought I posted something already, I agree with @mhupp making a single table is much easier, it can be sorted via borehole name and so on. Yes you can have it now, many of us here have done that request many times. Or can do say a couple of tables rather than lots. Yep found at Theswamp. https://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=60630.0 Need sample dwg and a Excel or csv.

I think you just need to practice creating 3d objects more, you need to look at how Extrude, Union, Subtract, Presspull work. one thing you need to do in this task is take advantage of extrude in -ve direction. so the base goes down, but all the rest get extruded up with correct height. Anyway you have something now so can scale a character and use presspull to change its height. Make sure your in a 3d view when using presspull to change height as must pick top face edge. Just a comment I did every character one at a time to make sure I did them correct.

@darshjalal Nice work! Your added Automatic mode, and the code to strip numbers out of the text is over and above!

@PaulyPHI Here is a quick walk-though: This uses Visual LISP to pull the text string from the selected object and convert it to a real number. See the added comments below. (if (and ;; Logical AND = All conditions must be met. ;; 1) an object must be selected. (setq es (entsel "\nSelect Text Object: ")) ;; 2) The selected object must have a text string property, i.e. TEXT, MTEXT, ATTRIBUTE, MLEADER, etc. (vlax-property-available-p (vlax-ename->vla-object (car es)) 'TextString) ;; 3) Retrieve the textsting value if the above conditions are met. (setq newZ (vla-get-textstring (vlax-ename->vla-object (car es)))) ;; 4) The textstring value must evaluate to greater than 0 when converted to a real number. This only works if the text is numerical. (> (setq newZ (distof newZ)) 0.0) ) ;; if all conditions are met, then continue to the (progn) block that performs the changes.

I agree 100% I've been on several of the "free STL" sites and that stuff is nice, especially for new people, but I like the satisfaction of knowing I built that and you're definitely right with some of that stuff needing tweaked. I've run into that a few times. I have a Flashforge AD5X and I'm still learning to use the software. If I remember correctly, I just used the STLOUT command to export the file from AutoCAD, then I open Flashforge and click/drag it from my desktop onto my slicer

PETA-INSERT ELEVATIONS FROM TEXTS INSIDE THE CLOSED OR OPEN POLYINE.LSP Try this one too

@PaulyPHI Give this a try.SetPlineZ_Updated.lsp