I’m not sure I would have followed the same procedure if I started completely from scratch, but just when you thought it couldn’t get better… Exploding letters!
One little caveat, no symbols comprised of more than one piece (sorry all you !?%;=:ij lovers, but ” lovers you’re still in luck).
If you look under the covers I have an uneducated hunch that using [Trim with BReps] allows the definition to load / update text faster than [Inside], but as a result I had to do some crazy tree work. Somewhere in there I also did a little VB.NET (still learning).
One might ask, why are are you messing with BReps anway? It’s just stupid 2D letters. Well, look at the B, A and R above. They have internal openings, not just single boundary curves. That makes imposing a uniform point grid properly on the letters a bit tricky, thus surfaces and BReps are your friends.
If I had more energy I would make a video, but you get the idea.
Happy shooting.
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I have been waiting my whole life for this! awsotastic!