boolean difference with exploded text

I'm doing a boolean difference using a box & extruded surface made from exploded text. Some letters work sometimes, some don't sometimes, it seems to be inconsistent. Anyone had this trouble or gotten over this trouble?

-Calvino

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Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on April 5, 2011 at 8:25am

Hi Mike, aren't your text letters solids? I tried this, without the exploding, and it works fine.

Permalink Reply by Mike Calvino on April 5, 2011 at 10:28am

HMMM . . . I just tried it, but I cannot set the text to either a Srf or Crv parameter in GH. I also cannot select it in a boolean difference or union or anything. I also tried extruding surface & curve just in Rhino (Rhino5) but it does not recognize the text as curve, surface, or solid.

hmmm . . . what gives??

Permalink Reply by Mike Calvino on April 5, 2011 at 10:31am

How did you create the text?

Permalink Reply by Mike Calvino on April 5, 2011 at 10:32am

Doooohhhh!, I need to use TextObject . . . Slack.

Thanks Pieter!

Cheers!

Permalink Reply by Pieter Segeren on April 5, 2011 at 12:09pm

Sorry, I went out. You figured it out, good. How did you create your text the first time??

Permalink Reply by Mike Calvino on April 5, 2011 at 2:43pm

I just used the Rhino command Text. That doesn't work I now know. I just used TextObject & set it to Create Curves. I need the 2d lines for plasma cutting later in the GH definition. I can just extrude them at the end of the GH def for the model.

I knew it had to be something simple . . . Thanks for the tip!

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