Text help please.

[micheus]

Just to help you to get better the idea about when and where to cut the first object...

I used Separate command in the text and then I got each character as an object. Then I made the subtraction of the dense one in the middle in order to show you what may be happens in the process that cause the "loop".

Notice the amount of faces that are under the other characters. By doing the same with each other that would create a lot of intersections to be solved. I believe the code is not able to handle it as good as our sight (and brain).


So, we can help it by adding cut around each character (at least for the more dense ones) - by cut I mean to use Connect [RMB] (selecting with the Right Mouse Button we are enter in Slide mode which is useful in this situation):


And then we can get a clear result:

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About the border...

We can use the resultant selected edges to set them as hard and get sharp results:



or..

We can use the main menu Select->By->Hard Edges and get the inner hard edges selected and then switch to Face selection mode [F] and get the engraved faces selected and work with them to make the border soft: