u/Engineer-50

Need to create a solid from this STL. Had some thought and ideas, but the software let me down. Only have basic knowledge in FreeCAD, but have very solid skills in other CAD programs.

My thought was obviously to create one radial segment and then pattern it. To create it my intent was to first create radial surfaces in small increments and then create intersection curves of the surfaces and the mesh (in FreeCAD converted to solid), then use a loft command connecting radially all the curves. This didn't work in 2 other programs, while in FreeCAD I am not that good to even figure how to try this.

I have a designed a part in CAD with a flat top surface and a text extrude on top. Why does Orca mess up the top layer below the text? Can't it just solid fill it normally? It happens all the time on all sorts of parts having some elements (not necessarily text) on a flat surface.

Is it possible to solve this? Or is it an unsolvable bug? Have had this back from the day I switched from PS few years ago.