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    Failing to use VisuHole on round surface

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    • C Offline
      casellini
      last edited by

      Hello,

      I am new here. Sketchup Beginner to Intermediate. I am using SketchUp to design details of our resort we are building on a small island in Thailand.

      We have this round sofa. 12 Meter outer diameter.

      https://corsita.com/downloads/sofa.jpg

      On the outer wall I want to write in big letters "Corsita Resort Koh Mak". I only manage to have VisuHole write part of the text block. Even though it shows the whole Stencil. Even if I would manage to write all 4 words, I then miss a way to strech the words over the hole 12 meters. I can solve this by setting the dimensions on the textblock before using VisuHole but I would have expected to find this function in VisuHole?

      In some trials it writes "Corsita R", in the next one "Cors" and in the next one I get "Corsita Resort Koh M". Sometimes even a crash of the extension.

      Positioning of the text block is very difficult. Even if I had al 4 words complete it would take me long time with several trials until I find the correct position.

      Can anyone help?

      Here an actual image of the place:

      https://corsita.com/media/images/camc-large.jpg

      PS: this post is from March 19th, 2021. At a later date you will end up seeing the final result in this live daily image (changes daily) πŸ˜„

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      • TIGT Offline
        TIG Moderator
        last edited by

        What you are trying to do would probably be more easily achieved with another extension - like TrueBend or ShapeBender - manipulating a 3dText group...

        TIG

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        • C Offline
          casellini
          last edited by

          @tig said:

          What you are trying to do would probably be more easily achieved with another extension - like TrueBend or ShapeBender - manipulating a 3dText group...

          Thanks. Shape Bender was the solution. Not easy to use until you understand. But great when you know how.

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