First Attempt, First Epic Fail!

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Re: First Attempt, First Epic Fail!

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Adrian wrote:This is a bit of an advanced project for your first job. It would be better to start with simple profile cuts, VCarve cuts and then a single relief model to understand how they all work and before trying to do it all in one go. At the moment there are so many potential problem areas it's hard to know what to suggest.
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Re: First Attempt, First Epic Fail!

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Thanks everyone, so I redesigned it using the tutorial on text creation, I did everything on the list (welding etc) but when I go to view the toolpaths using Profile it only has a part of one word of the 3 that are on the screen.

I also kept getting "Must select one text" errors when trying to do a few things so I think i turned them into nodes but cannot remember how to get them back to text :)

Any ideas?

I would ask for suggestions but my wife already told me that she suggested I take it back which only makes me want to make this work that much more :D
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Re: First Attempt, First Epic Fail!

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Any ideas?
Please post the file. If it is too large then place it on Google Drive or DropBox and post a link.

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Re: First Attempt, First Epic Fail!

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really, twice you had to remind me to post files. Wow, maybe I am not smart enough
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Re: First Attempt, First Epic Fail!

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Well for one thing, once you turn text into curves, as far as I know, there is no turning back and converting it back into text.
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