Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
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I am using a Dell Precision 530 with dual 2.20 ghz processors. I have a 64 meg video card and 1 gig of RAM.
Some text seems to cut or extrude fine, but sometimes it takes forever (like 1/2 hour or more). I want to have about 50 words of text on my part, but this seems impossible. I have looked into the program text effects, but that seems to be more for positioning text. Does anybody have any tips or ideas for improving the performance of my text?
Some text seems to cut or extrude fine, but sometimes it takes forever (like 1/2 hour or more). I want to have about 50 words of text on my part, but this seems impossible. I have looked into the program text effects, but that seems to be more for positioning text. Does anybody have any tips or ideas for improving the performance of my text?






RE: Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
Also, please let us know what version of SW and OS you are using.
"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
RE: Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
I am trying to simulate labels and printing on parts. (such as shipping cartons, etc...)
RE: Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
- - -DennisD
RE: Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
If you have access to PhotoWorks, you can look into using decals.
As far as extruded text on parts, this was only used for molded parts and consisted of our 5 digit part number and rev code. I've never tried to extrude anything near 50 characters of text...
"The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
RE: Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
RE: Text taking unbearable amount of time to extrude or cut.
The only way I've found that a blind cut/extrude feature works within a sheet metal part is when it appears after the sheet metal feature. And in that case, you wouldn't see the text feature in the flat pattern because of its position in the model tree.
Getting back to your original intent with simulating a label I've seen an example where someone modelled an inkjet printer cartridge as was able to do something with jpeg files on the faces of the part to achieve a similar result via the "Inser Picture" command. My opinion of it at the time was that it was kind of neat but I remember asking myself, "what's the point?" The answer is I guess this is a situation where something like that would make a lot of sense. It should go easier on the model performance than a feature I would imagine as well. Good luck.
Chris Gervais
Mechanical Designer
American Superconductor