Remove lettering and logos
Take text and logos off parts, however the CAD program made them: raised or engraved in the part’s own surface, or modelled as separate little bodies laid over it.
Part numbers, makers’ names and logos cost a lot of triangles for something nobody reads on a web model. A CAD program makes them in one of three ways, and this card finds all three:
- Raised text cut into the part’s own mesh. It is flattened back into the face.
- Engraved text cut into the part’s own mesh. It is closed as a shallow pocket.
- Text modelled as bodies of their own, laid over a part: often sunk a few millimetres into it and standing a little proud. These bodies are deleted; the part under them is complete. Bodies hidden entirely inside a part are found too.
How to use it
- Select the parts that carry the lettering. The card works on the selection only.
- Open the command search (Ctrl + K) and run Remove lettering and logos….
- Press Find only first if you want to look: it selects the lettering bodies and counts the marks, without changing anything. Isolate shows them on their own.
- Press Remove lettering. The bodies are deleted and the marks flattened or closed. It is two undo steps: one for the bodies, one for the marks.
What the settings mean
- Raised, up to
- Raised text no higher than this above its face counts as lettering. 0.6 mm to begin with: CAD text drawn 0.5 mm high measures a little more once it is cut into triangles.
- Engraved, down to
- Engraved text no deeper than this counts.
- Largest mark
- A mark wider than this is a feature of the part, not lettering, and stays.
- Cut into the part’s mesh
- Off: raised and engraved text in the part’s own surface is left alone.
- Bodies laid over a part
- Off: separate lettering bodies are left alone.
- Bodies hidden inside a part
- Off: bodies that are wholly inside a part are left alone.
Reset to defaults puts the settings back. They are remembered for next time.