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You need to do a Z compensation on a part with a label, often you will not have the desired result. Certainly not if the label is on a curved surface.

When we do a Z compensation on the above part, combined with a unify and a sharp triangle filtration, our part looks like this:

Let's now have a look how we can avoid this.
First step is to mark the label and separate it from the part. We can easily mark the surface around the label and then we use the toggle function to correctly mark the label. We use the separate marked function to remove the label from the part. It can be found on the triangle page of the fix toolsheet.


The second step is to repair our part and add the Z compensation to it. First we hide our label. Now we can easily fill the holes, which were created by separating the logo from the part, with the automatic hole filling function. We now apply the Z compensation on our part that has no more label.


The third step is preparing our label, so we can put it on the part again. We select the 'label' part and hide the other part. Again here we repair the label part with the automatic hole filling function. But we do NOT unmark the triangles that have just been created by filling the holes because we will use the extrude function on them to extrude the top of the label a few millimeters. This must be done for the unify operation, which we will perform at the end. We position our label by translating it in the Z direction over a distance identical to the Z compensation.



Finally we merge our two parts and unify them. To optimize the result you can still use the filter sharp triangle function.

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