@gaieus said:
In your particular case it would probably be better to start with a non-extruded text as that will be the easier after you clean up and extrude.
I learned that one the hard way. Actually, it's a lot more challenging than first expected, as letters such as "lowercase e" extrude upon themselves, cutting in on each section of the letter which overlaps one another, shown in the view below:
It's not pretty, especially when you're offsetting letters into other letters, as they intersect each other and set off very funky angles. So, what I did for my final was to explode the word, 'move' each letter alternating up and down so that they were away from everything else, and then did the offset on each letter. I moved them back into position, trimmed the intersecting lines and lines I did not need, and came up with this roughly:
As you can see, it still needs some touching up, but IT WORKS! I'm very happy with the result, as I'm trying to create a 3D sign to be exported to my CNC software for carving.
Again, my sincere thanks!
Rick