Extruding with bend problem

[Bobo]

Originally posted by doddy
Hi,

I have been going through a tutorial and decided to experiment with it a little.

Basically I have done the following:

1. Created a rectangle.
2. Created some text, converted it to spline and attached it to the rectangle.
3. Boolean operation to cut out the text.
4. Some bevel operations to give the result of text cut out of a box that has goodedges around the text.



Try this instead:

*Create a box with 10x10x1 segments
*Create the text
*Extrude the text (higher than the box)
*Boolean text from box
*Bend the box

Because of the 10x10 segmentation, there is enough detail to bend correctly...

http://www.scriptspot.com/bobo/stuff/cgtalk/BendTextBox.jpg

[doddy]

Thanks Bobo,

But I have already tried that way but I couldn't find an easy way to produce the chamfered edges around the lettering.

I have attached another pic that gives a better view of what I mean.

Is the original problem because it is only built from 1 segment? Or because it is only bending the last extrude/bevel I made from the shape?

Thanks
Doddy

[Trambott]

bobo me thinks hit the nail on the head, lack of segments is cause of lack of bend

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