[ErnieD]

Hi,

I am playing around with this and when I do the extrude it shows up but there does not seem to be any caps. I should mention that this is text that I am extruding. How can I be certain that there are caps on the text?

Thanks,

Ernie

[The Engine Guy]

Hi,

I am playing around with this and when I do the extrude it shows up but there does not seem to be any caps. I should mention that this is text that I am extruding. How can I be certain that there are caps on the text?

Thanks,

Ernie

Ernie

I think you will have to use the "Planar" surfacing to get a cap on extruded text if you are having a problem with it, did you "Vectorize" your text ??

If you also want the bottom capped then you could always extrude your new surface down to create a bottom cap.

Or just select "Along Z axis" instead of "Along Normal", that should do it :-) :-) But it should work OK on either, does here :-) :-)

Rob

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[BurrMan]

No Caps would be an indication that the curves are either non-planar or open.

[MadTooler]

I don't use bobcad, but with the systems I do, another common cause I see with extruding fonts is some are self intersecting. So there might be a little curl in your profile somewhere that the cad doesn't really mind extruding as a surface, but is confused when you want to cap or make solid.

I have had worst case scenarios with specialized fonts that forced me to edit the fonts so I could avoid the open or self intersecting issues. That was worst case, and I would hope very unlikely for most well developed fonts.

[Joe S.]

I may be repeating what MadTooler said, as I am not sure I really understood as He is talking over my head a bit , but it's funny I should see this thread this evening as I encountered this just this morning.

The Chase:
All that aside, I found if the profiles are not properly chained, I E not connected it will build walls with no cap. So just select trim 2 entities and connect them up and it should cap the walls.
HTH
JS