Hi Mike,

> Because I don't know it better. I thought, thats the
> way to do it.

Well it could be the way to do it in some particular situations, like if you have a surface and you want to thicken it into a slab that has uniform thickness then the Shell command can do that.

But I'm just not sure from your general description of using offset and inset if that's the kind of thing that you were doing or whether you were trying to do something different.

It would probably help to see a 3DM model file with the surface and text in it to give you better specific advice for what technique to use, it can be difficult for me to fully understand what you were trying to do from just a text description - being able to see a 3DM model file really helps me to understand what you were trying to do and I can then give better advice when I'm sure that I understand.

- Michael