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    • A Offline
      angusog
      last edited by

      G'Day Folks and folkess's

      looking for a way to insert/ intersect radial text ( see Skp)

      atm i am using 3d text tool
      then i explode said text

      regroup each individual letter ( for ease of positioning)
      Move into position and rotate to desired angle
      intersect and delete unwanted geometry

      all in all a long convoluted process


      radial text.skp


      radial text.jpg

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        Voder Vocoder
        last edited by

        You'd be better off doing the fit text to curve operation in a 2D graphics program that has special features to do exactly that. CorelDraw, for instance, has a dandy text-on-a-curve function, with all kinds of controls.

        After you've got the outlines, you can import them into SU via dxf or dwg and then Push/Pull etc. to suit.

        ~Voder

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          angusog
          last edited by

          Thanks Voder, I have adobe elements v3 will check that out see if i can do that, would actualy work perfectly if i can

          thanx again

          rob

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            tim
            last edited by

            The free 'Inkscape' application does it quite well, too. In fact Inkscape is really rather a good application so long as you can ignore the rather unpleasant visual quality of the UI - on a Mac it has to run under the X Windows library and the UI look really jars with the nice clean OS X UI.

            But it is good and it is free. Hard to argue with that.

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              angusog
              last edited by

              Thanks Tim will d/l that and give it a go

              😎

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                lapx
                last edited by

                How about curving in the other direction? These should be on the wish list for function with the 3d tect commmand.

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