I’m making an attempt so as to add some 3D textual content to a mannequin that’s 6 mm thick. I would love the textual content to be “engraved” within the mannequin. Goal is to offer the mannequin to a CNC store to route out the mannequin, with the engraved textual content. I can not get Sketch Up so as to add a “adverse” extrusion to the textual content so it goes into the mannequin. The mannequin is solely a sequence of triangles in a board, with every triangle being recognized by a quantity. If I attempt to use the push/pull software, the quantity merely disappears as soon as it hits the floor of the mannequin. It is not going to go into the mannequin. I additionally bumped into a problem with utilizing the 3D textual content software. It could merely state I couldn’t place the 3D textual content part on the face of the mannequin.
You might want to down load and fix your mannequin for us to have the ability to resolve the problem for you.
Seems like a combination of issues, scale and a number of teams.
Here’s a hyperlink to the mannequin (I hope): SketchUp
There are a number of guides within the mannequin. I’ve stored them in for future reference. I’m merely making an attempt to place a quantity on every of the triangles that may be engraved into every of them.
No, that solely permits us to view your mannequin, that’s why I stated obtain and fix.
However it does inform me that you’ve got your faces reversed, which might be the rationale a adverse extrusion doesn’t work, adverse can be raised up from the again faces.
Attempt reversing your faces and check out once more.
Segments.skp (89.1 KB)
Right here is the mannequin. Undecided what you imply by “reversing the faces”. Thanks for serving to out
Okay, acquired the faces reversed and can see if I can put a quantity in .
Segments (1).skp (77.7 KB)
Right here is the mannequin with one quantity in place. The quantity itself seems to be raised above the floor of the mannequin, and isn’t on the face of the mannequin and I can not get it onto the face.
Appears to me a part of the issue is you’re working in Parallel Projection fairly than Perspective.
This implies you may’t actually see that your guides and your quantity aren’t really touching the face of your mannequin.
You possibly can flip off the guides, they’ll nonetheless be there and you may flip them on once more latter in order for you.
Your quantity has no face or extrusion. Use a stuffed extrusion with a – and place it on the face, then explode it and take away the highest face.
