<![CDATA[SoliForum - 3D Printing Community — Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/topic/6971/text-following-a-circular-profile/ Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:47:45 +0000 PunBB <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60426/#p60426 Ahh, so the modeling portion is all there, it's just extra fluff with presentation then?  Thanks for the help, it's much appreciated.

]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:47:45 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60426/#p60426 <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60425/#p60425 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....

]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 05:13:08 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60425/#p60425 <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60422/#p60422 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.

]]> Wed, 16 Jul 2014 04:28:29 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60422/#p60422 <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60371/#p60371 Here's a sample I threw together in 10 minutes

]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:12:15 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60371/#p60371 <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60370/#p60370 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.

]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 13:01:11 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60370/#p60370 <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60358/#p60358 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.

]]> Tue, 15 Jul 2014 03:38:12 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60358/#p60358 <![CDATA[Re: Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60334/#p60334 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

]]> Mon, 14 Jul 2014 18:47:41 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60334/#p60334 <![CDATA[Text following a circular profile]]> https://www.soliforum.com/post/60307/#p60307 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.

]]> Mon, 14 Jul 2014 03:15:13 +0000 https://www.soliforum.com/post/60307/#p60307