Fillet Extruded text

[trebligop]

Fillet Extruded text

 

hi to all..

 

Does anyone know how to fillet extruded text? when u extrude text its side is 90deg sharp.. i want to put a radius

on it, for example this letter L

gilbert.dwg

 

thanks guys.//

[ReMark]

Why didn't you fillet first then extrude?

[trebligop]

no matter how i tried filleting a text before extruding i cant get a good result, after extruding i can fillet the text segment by segment and it takes too much time. i cant find a ways to fillet them in just one command... hope you guys who is the master of this field can help me..

 

thank you very much

[ReMark]

There is no magic command for filleting all extruded text at one time. Sorry.

[trebligop]

you are being literal my friend anyway thank you

[ReMark]

you are being literal my friend anyway thank you

 

I took a look at your example letter and notice that it is constructed of many short straight line segments. This does not make the process of assigning a radius to any two contiguous segments easy or predictable in a way that a lisp routine could handle without failing. Better preparation of base elements goes a long way towards a better outcome.

[trebligop]

but i dont know how

[ReMark]

Remember...GIGO.

 

Here is your letter after a bit of cleanup. The underlying linework was a mess. Way too many short line segements.

 

gilbert[rev].dwg

[ReMark]

but i dont know how

 

Look at the example I just posted. I cleaned up many of the short line segements, used the Pedit command to join all the new, longer segments, radiused them (R=0.5) and extruded.

 

No one said it was going to be easy. If you start out with a better basis for your lettering you'll get a much better end result.

[trebligop]

sir these are the sides that i wanted to fillet

 

sample.dwg

[ReMark]

sir these are the sides that i wanted to fillet

 

[ATTACH]24601[/ATTACH]

 

That won't happen as you probably have already found out. You'll get this as a response from AutoCAD:

 

Failed to perform blend.

Failure while filleting.

 

It can be done in my example, gilbert[rev].dwg, however.

[ReMark]

A radiused edge. The size of the radius does make a different too. I had to use 0.25 as 0.5 would not work.

 

[ReMark]

After a bit more experimenting with your last sample drawing I was able to get some, not all, of the edges to fillet using a setting of .125 but I think you have too many inconsistencies in the construction of your solid for successfully filleting the entire top edge like you want.

[JD Mather]

In a modern 3D CAD program, like Autodesk Inventor, you could select all 49 edges with one click of Loop.

In AutoCAD if that was simplified with lines and tangent arcs, instead of all of those little facets, you could use the Fillet with Chain option. But because there is no tangency.... .....I think I would create my own simplified font for 3D if I had to use AutoCAD....

[trebligop]

thank you MASTERS

[heavysan]

I know this may be coming out of left field, but there is a free utility called "elefont" (google it).

this utility converts any windows or related fonts into 3-d elements. It allows you to apply effects to the

edges of the letters such as chamfers and radii and to adjust the depth of the extrusion.

You can save out your results to a DXF file and copy/paste into your drawing. Give it a shot, I have used it

many times with good results.