Exporting files

[kosednar]

Hello,

I have a donut with text inscribed in it. I select the cut and export to a step file. When I open the step file the text is filled.

Can anyone tell what is wrong?

Regards,

Joe K.

OS: Windows 10 (10.0)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
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Build type: Release
Branch: master
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Qt version: 5.12.1
Coin version: 4.0.0a
OCC version: 7.3.0
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[Roy_043]

Please read the documentation: Std_Export.
Specifically the selection instructions.

[chrisb]

When I open the step file the text is filled.

Confirmed. I don't think you did anything wrong.

OS: macOS 10.16
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.20.25311 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: master
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Python version: 3.9.6
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.2
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[TheMarkster]

Rotate the circle sketch so that the seamline does not intersect the cut, and then do the export again.

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Select sketch -> edit menu -> placement -> check apply incremental changes -> check use center of mass -> set y for axis -> rotate 90 degrees

[thomas-neemann]

apparently something is wrong with the fcstd file. realthunder throws an error message when opening.

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OS: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS (XFCE/xubuntu)
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 2021.717.24301 +3627 (Git) AppImage
Build type: Release
Branch: LinkStage3
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Python version: 3.9.6
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.2
Locale: German/Germany (de_DE)

[chrisb]

apparently something is wrong with the fcstd file. realthunder throws an error message when opening.

That says nothing about the issue discussed here. Read the message: it says the font file is missing.

[thomas-neemann]

ok, can you say that a freecad file can only be processed further on the operating system on which it was created? (If the question doesn't fit here, I could open a new topic.)

[chrisb]

ok, can you say that a freecad file can only be processed further on the operating system on which it was created? (If the question doesn't fit here, I could open a new topic.)

Not in general, but fonts are not included in the file for license reasons. I have proposed a long time ago to allow at least relative paths for them. Then I could just send a project folder containing model plus fonts to another system an it would work there.

[thomas-neemann]

it seems to work with a linux font

RingSizer10-Cut-linux-font.stp

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lg thomas

[domad]

Greetings to the Community!

I describe my experimentation:

- I imported the "Ring Sizer 10.step" file (the original one attached to the topic) into another cad and it was imported correctly (with the number 10 hollowed in the ring).
- From a cad (not FC) I exported “Ring Sizer 10” again in * .step format, renaming it to “Ring Sizer 10-2.step”, it went from a source weight of 242 kb to 97 kb.
- I tried to import "Ring Sizer 10-2.step" into FC without success because FC never stops importing the file and I was forced, after a long time, to kill the import.
- Even the original file, "Ring Sizer 10.step", I can't import it into FC and I'm forced to kill the import, I don't want to wait all day in front of the monitor.

Since the other cad takes a few tenths of a second to import the two files, I believe that the latest FC updates have, with all probability, compromised the code that implies the import / opening of the * .steps; does anyone know of this eventuality?

I attach the file "Ring Sizer 10-2.step" exported with other cad with the hope that someone will be able to import it in a version of FC different from mine:

OS: Windows 8 (6.2)
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
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Build type: Release
Branch: master
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Python version: 3.8.10
Qt version: 5.12.9
Coin version: 4.0.0
OCC version: 7.5.2
Locale: Italian/Italy (it_IT)