[New feature] Shapestrings in PartDesign or Sketcher

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Re: [New feature] Shapestrings in PartDesign or Sketcher

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Pauvres_honteux wrote: Wed Jan 05, 2022 9:44 am
abdullah wrote:
Hi guys!
How about this principle?
User start a tool (text?) and fill in his/hers desired text.

The tool then:
- creates a new sketch per letter/symbol.
- register and stores them sketches positions and orientations.
- tool indentifies problematic sketches.
- user can now easily fix any problematic/offending letter/symbol on per letter/symbol basis.
- tool can now place and orientate each sketch to users liking, e.g. along a 3D curve on a double curved surface.
- tool extrudes all sketches in a single direction or per surface normal per sketch.
- user will be fully accountable for making extrudes manufacturable. Though tool may give a hint about intersecting extrudes.
I would like to see text within the sketcher. Then it is for the user to decide whether he or she wants to extrude a whole word or letter by letter.

Unfortunately, my time availability is lately heavily compromised. If nobody tackles it, eventually I will. But it is not top in my list.
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Re: [New feature] Shapestrings in PartDesign or Sketcher

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abdullah wrote: Fri Jan 07, 2022 3:18 pm Unfortunately, my time availability is lately heavily compromised. If nobody tackles it, eventually I will. But it is not top in my list.
No worries, I'll give it a try myself.
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