FreeCAD : Quick and Easy Text / Font Effects Emboss, Combine and Outline (Beginners Tutorial)

Understand how we can manipulate, emboss, outline and curve text and true type fonts in FreeCAD. We will learn how to use both the path workbench and the part design wb together to manipulate text that has been created via the draft workbench. We will use FreeCAD to extract out individual letters and combine and merge letters together to create some interesting results

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[Dartheomus]

You are such an amazing teacher, and your voice is cathardic! In about a week, I've gone from not knowing how to draw a box in CAD to making some phenomenally complex designs for my 3d printer. Thank you so much!

[tl]

Thank you sir . More coffee coming your way haha. I wasn’t sure of the conversion rate . And yes you are an excellent teacher.

[danielosborn]

This is such a great example of combining work benches. One thing that trips me up with freecad.

[brucewilliams]

This is very helpful! Manipulating text has been a royal pain. Fusing the text looks like a great means of making it easier to manipulate. Great job as always.

[henrymach]

This facebinder thingy is exactly what I was looking for

[thehammer]

The best thing about your videos is, you make a mistake and show away to redo it! And you are so serioulsy good at what you show, i am fascinated! awesome and love your videos and the whole lot! shame is i need to rewatch them all cause i guess im just to ols to remember it all with just one watch! But brilliant, keep up the awesomness your providing for free. likw cheepscates like me! sry

[RicardoLameiro]

Thank you for this video. Very good explanation and very clear exposition!

[rullywow]

Thank you for the great video. It took some of the mystery out of working with text for me. Great content, subscribed!

[Sigurdinus]

Thanks for these videos! Always very enjoyable to watch, always exceptionally informative.

[QEngineering]

This tutorial kicked ass, learned at ton.

Thank you for the knolledge.

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[thespacecowboy]

Please show how to make a flower for 3d printing in spiral vase mode like "vase flower" on printables or similar?

[zk_]

Interesting video. I was wondering how to extrude the text and your video helped. One thing though, how do I combine an extruded text with a rectangulat padded object. I have tried a boolean union, but that did not work.

[muckingfuddle]

Thanks for a great only it worked in version 21.1, soon as you click on Facebinder it shifts the fusion and so, the facebinder passes through the grid, then causing it not to be a closed object(am sure I have used the wrong description of the parts)

[linda-annanetts]

Hello, I am enjoying your videos, they are very informative and easy to follow. I wonder though, do you have a video on how to imbed (pocket if you will) text into a curved shape?

[nac]

Great Video !!!
You have a realy comfy voice.

[jhbonarius]

18:20 I have a letter shape and use the facebinder. But as soon as I select 2D offset on the facebinder object I get "Exception: makeOffset2D result of offsetting is null!". i.e. doens't work

[libervolucion]

I've got a problem. When trying to do the 2D Offset, it only works on some characters. Others fail with message "result of offsetting is null".

[postullio]

18:33
I am using version 21.2
I have been following your demonstration step by step, and so far so good - until the moment I click the 2d off-set button with the face-binder selected. I get an error saying that my wire is not closed. That doesn't make any sense to me because I overlapped my letters, fused them together and refined their edges exactly as you demonstrated. I repositioned and rearranged my "ing" a time or two but that doesn't seem to solve the issue. I understand that this video is 2 years old, and I have no clue which version you are using, but do you have any idea as to why I am getting this error message?

Thank you for all of your tutorials. They are incredibly helpful!

[bambukouk]

shouldn't it come with a warning about TNP (attaching to face not being the best practice?) 👍
that aside - very nice and useful vid - thank you
BTW have you got something about general introduction to Draft workbench?
I find very difficult to get my head round and avoid it all cost 😉
I use almost exclusive Part Design workbench...

[lingotheoriginal]

Great Tutorial but how would I outline a single letter to extrude and only show extrude, I get lost in your adding them together. Prolly to dang old to learn anything new but still trying 5 hours later and still no clue.