Thanks
So far I have only used Blender for boolean operations on .stl models and haven't explored all the other features and add ons


Quote Originally Posted by Geoff View Post
sorry.. it may not be turned on

File/User Preferences / Addons

Scroll down to you see "Import images as planes", tick it..

or you can use a vector tracing program like inkscape, I just find it cleaner to work with simple planes, inscape generates a curve from a text path, which is a very messy mesh and makes for a cruddy extrusion (without tonnes of holes)