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It seems like extruded shapes should be manifold. My letters DO overlap one another. If I extruded each letter separately, would that solve the issue?

I attached the file, in case a fellow C4D user is willing to take a look.]]> antiapathy 2010-06-10T16:00:17-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13544&th=2702#msg_13544 Youknowwho4eva 2010-06-10T16:02:45-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13546&th=2702#msg_13546 antiapathy 2010-06-10T16:03:54-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13547&th=2702#msg_13547 antiapathy 2010-06-10T16:12:30-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13549&th=2702#msg_13549 Youknowwho4eva 2010-06-10T16:48:40-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13551&th=2702#msg_13551
The other part is a little harder. Maybe I could use booleans to add the objects together or subtract them from each other.

What do you think? Thanks for the suggestions. ]]> antiapathy 2010-06-10T16:53:52-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13552&th=2702#msg_13552 Youknowwho4eva 2010-06-10T17:07:27-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13605&th=2702#msg_13605
The C4D booleans isn't working the way I had hoped though. It doesn't seem to delete all the parts that end up in the inside of the model.

Is there some other trick I am missing?

In the file attached I am showing the "Boolean Intersection," because I believe that is what is probably deleted when I do "Boolean Union."

I imagine/hope there is a better solution than to manually go in and delete the intersecting parts.]]> antiapathy 2010-06-11T16:50:50-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13607&th=2702#msg_13607 Youknowwho4eva 2010-06-11T17:18:07-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13640&th=2702#msg_13640 antiapathy 2010-06-13T01:22:02-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=13898&th=2702#msg_13898
sorry I hadn't spotted your message before. I had a look at your model and as you say, the problem were the faces that were still left on the inside where the parts intersected.

I manually removed them for you, you'll find the fixed file attached.

If you have further questions, you can also email service@shapeways.com directly. That's probably faster.

Good luck!

Bart]]> bartv 2010-06-22T10:19:41-00:00 http://www.shapeways.com/forum/index.php?t=rview&goto=14268&th=2702#msg_14268 Antiapathy sorry this fell of my plate. ]]> Youknowwho4eva 2010-07-02T12:42:27-00:00