Thanks Michael - I'll play with that.

Yes, I really need to wrap recessed text or designs around the circumference. Hope that goes on your "wish list".

In the meantime I'll try it using one letter at a time.

Regards,
Ed

Seems to me that you can project your texte like a real wraping with the function Construct /Curve / project :)
In some action
project up line curve of the letter on one cylindric surface
project down curve line of the letter on one less cylindric surface
reconstruct the letter
Make boolean Cylinder / new letter = your real wraping text :)

Here you have just make a "straight" projection not a "rotative" projection :)

You can do it, its just an extra step.
Project the wires of the lettering onto the surface of the tube.
Then you create a solid from the projected wires
(that's a few extra steps)
then boolean the new letters from the surface.

Mike Fitz
www.3dartz.com

there is a free download for curving text www.deskam.com go to downloads then {"desk engrave" it's free hope this will help it will save as a dxf or g code

the only detail is that you can't put it inside Moi :)

After you project the letter curves, if you trim your original surface with them, you can extrude the new letter surfaces using *Set dir* , *Cap ends* and *Both sides*
to create a cutter that will boolean out from the original object at a consistent depth, while following the contour of the surface.

Excellent! I hope these kind of tips find their way into the MoI documentation :)

Ed