Text onto curved surface

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 From:  ugotaccpaced
3647.1 
How do I get get text onto a curved surface? Projection doesn't get me where I want as I think I need to arrange the text in a circular pattern first.

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 From:  Michael Gibson
3647.2 In reply to 3647.1 
Hi ugotaccpaced, yes you will need to rotate each character into position in the top view, then you can extrude them and boolean the main shape with the extruded letter.

For an example see the image in this previous post:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1333.2


In the future I do want to add tools for warping objects including text.


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 From:  ugotaccpaced
3647.3 In reply to 3647.2 
My method was to create a 24 sided polygon (since I had 20 text objects that wrapped around approximately 80% of the circumfrence) about the size of the base of the object. I would line up 1 text object at a time then rotate the whole thing 1 turn clockwise. Rinse and repeat.

Not perfect but I think good enough for what I am after.

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