SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Text following a circular profile

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-16T05:47:45Z

Ahh, so the modeling portion is all there, it's just extra fluff with presentation then? Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated.

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-16T05:13:08Z

yes, this was done on Make. Make is the freebie version. Pro allows you to do things like film it for presentation and other stuff I am too broke to do....

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-16T04:28:29Z

Hmm, that example you gave me michael might actually do the job. Is Sketchup Make the same thing as Pro? I thought sketchup was free, could be wrong though.

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-15T13:12:15Z

Here's a sample I threw together in 10 minutes

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-15T13:01:11Z

Could you use sketchup's text addon for each letter, then rotate it by however many degrees you need (number of letters divided by 360 should give you a close enough angle)? Move them around a circle shape. If you need to do detail work, explode em.

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-15T03:38:12Z

That way in sketchup isn't quite what I need, I tried finding a good video on it for sketchup as well. I could definitely just move each letter by hand, but the time consumption isn't worth the one off design.

I was thinking about trying the word art idea, I'll have to look more into that. I'm just really surprised this isn't more of a common tool available in all the software i've been looking at.

Re: Text following a circular profile

2014-07-14T18:47:41Z

There's probably an easier way to do it, but I would use Sketchup as explained in the link below or use something like MS PowerPoint WordArt to make the text then take a screenshot of the text. Import that screenshot into Blender or Sketchup and trace the text onto an object.

https://productforums.google.com/forum/ … BZ2nxJv4d0

Text following a circular profile

2014-07-14T03:15:13Z

A friend asked me to draw up and print a logo for him. The only issue I'm running into is none of the software I have will let me make text in a circular profile that I can then extrude. I don't mean raised or embosses text on a cylinder, but just text in a semi circle in a logo.

I have Creo Elements Direct Modeling, which is my main source. Their Creo Parametric seems like it was up to the task but it was such a vast difference in how things are drawn I didn't get the hang of it before the trial ran out.

I'm in a trial version of Geomagic Design from 3DSystems but it doesn't have that ability either apparently.

I have OpenScad, but I have very limited programming background. My brain also doesn't like not seeing what I'm doing before I do it.

Any ideas? It's quite frustrating since Creo Direct has been able to do everything with extreme ease for absolutely free, but I can't put a circle of text on something without it costing me thousands for a bundled software license.