Full Version: Array or placing text

Hi Guys
I am stuck trying to array a line of text in a curve on a flat signet top.

Is there any way of arraying the text along a surface curve (like gem array).

The attached signet I manually placed the text in an arc which can be time consuming.

I am also looking to easily put text onto the inside surfaces of a ring (to boolean out)

Names, declarations of love etc

Any idea's

cheers
shayno

Attachments:
signet st chris letters not removed.3dm

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Hi shayno,

Moi doesn't support this yet, I believe Michael does want to include this in future versions of MoI.
Other people, especially the jewelry guys, have been asking for this feature, you can find further discussions about this at the following link; http://moi3d.com/forum/messages.php?webtag=MOI&msg=3385.1

Cheers

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Hi Shanye, for the text on the top flat part of the ring you could use a 2D illustration program to help out, many of those can put text that follows along a curve. Then export to AI or PDF format and bring that into MoI.

One that can work well for that is Creature House Expression 3 which is still available for free from here:
http://download.microsoft.com/download/a/5/d/a5d625a5-2e3d-4e9c-8608-6de48d7b569f/CreatureHouseExpression3_3.exe

So for example in Expression I created something like this:



Then I exported the attached 2d_text_example.ai file which can be imported into MoI, and then extruded into a solid:



- Michael

Attachments:
2d_text_example.ai

Image Attachments:
expression_text_screenshot.jpg  expression_text_screenshot2.jpg 

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Michael,

Thanks a lot for that link. I used to uses Expression, but lost my disk. it will be great to use that again.

Regards,
J. Tucker

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Thanks very much , I will try that way
Text on inside surfaces may take some practice
I know in rhino you can draw it on a flat surface or strip then bend it up into a ring
cheers
shayne

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Hi Shayne,

> I know in rhino you can draw it on a flat
> surface or strip then bend it up into a ring

Yup, that's one of the areas where Rhino can be very useful - there was a set of deformation tools added in to Rhino v4 that can do those kinds of things.

I want to work on adding those functions into MoI as well, but for right now you may want to use Rhino along side of MoI to do those particular operations.

- Michael

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