Hello,
I have a part the needs to have a large quantity of text engraved into it. I have the text on it's own sketch and every time I try to extrude cut it, I get zero thickness error. I have moved my text away from the edge, took parenthesis off and made them quotation marks, even changed font size. Nothing has worked. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Angie
I use a lot of text in sketches and have found that some fonts with certain characters will cause the zero thickness error. You can fix this sometimes by increasing the spacing between characters or changing fonts.
Also, this is a complex sketch with a lot going on. I would break it down into a minimum of 3 sketches with the first being geometry only then inner and outer text being in 2 additional sketches. This will help you narrow down exactly where the error is. Text features rebuilds really slow so when I get them working correctly I suppress them to speed up assemblies and rebuilds but leave the geometry features (lines, circles) unsuppressed.
This worked!! I actually did 4 separate sketches: the lines, the test on the lines, the outer markings, and finally the degree annotations. They all extruded with no problems!! Thank-you soo much.
Hi Angie, that is a lot of text! In my opinion some of your text is right on the edge of an existing edge (extrude cut) and that is why you are having trouble with your extrude cuts. See the bottom of the "T" and the "A"
Also take a look at your cut-extrude3 it cuts down into the part
Delete the Groove Cut not the sketch then Cut Extrude your Text and then cut the grooves, when you first cut your grooves there are lots of areas in the text that are messing with the Zero Thickness Error.
Good model little bit of time for the extrude ..
Thank-you for all of your help and taking the time to give me options for fixes. I used the first response of separate sketches and that worked for me.
I use a lot of text in sketches and have found that some fonts with certain characters will cause the zero thickness error. You can fix this sometimes by increasing the spacing between characters or changing fonts.
Also, this is a complex sketch with a lot going on. I would break it down into a minimum of 3 sketches with the first being geometry only then inner and outer text being in 2 additional sketches. This will help you narrow down exactly where the error is. Text features rebuilds really slow so when I get them working correctly I suppress them to speed up assemblies and rebuilds but leave the geometry features (lines, circles) unsuppressed.