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I am trying to put a name (see through Text- stencil) on a Flat piece of TPU, Sounds simple, but I'm having a hard time. I am New to this.

In Blender I just add a Plane, give it some thickness, then I put text in it, but I want to be able to see through the letters, as if they are cut out.

I also tried that with the knife in Blender. I am to new to this not enough experience.

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    – vklidu
    Commented Nov 30, 2021 at 14:37

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I believe this is what you are trying to do. enter image description here

If that is so,then make 2 objects. One rectangle with the thickness you want the piece of TPU to be and one text object.

The shortcut to add Text is ⇧ Shift + A > Text.

Make the text thickness you want from Properties > Object Data Properties (green letter icon) > Geometry > Extrude/Offset

Then move the text to overlap each other having a thicker text than the rectangle's thickness.

Make the Text a Mesh by selecting the text and from the top left of the viewport, Object > Convert > Mesh.

Have in mind that boolean modifier won't work if the text isn't a mesh. Choose the rectangle, make a boolean modifier from Properties > Modifier Properties and pick Boolean. Select the Text as the object and apply the modifier by hitting ⌃ Ctrl + A. If you apply and move the text object you can see the see-through text.

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