3D text Thank You for Wired Insider
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Published on August 1, 2011
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I was lucky enough to win my first TOM from a contest held by Wired Insider. wiredinsider.tumblr.com/ The contest was to find the 'Wired Maker' and it was co-judged by adafruit. See wiredinsider.tumblr.com/post/6496464550/announcing-the-wired-maker
I then proceed to give myself a crash course in 3D design using AutoDesk Inventor (free for students). This guy's video tutorial series is great: youtube.com/user/robcohee
Anyway so this is a Thank You to them for being awesome and hosting such a great contest. I encourage people to give their blog a check out. I am certainly a loyal reader!
I'm a little stumped by Inventor as it doesn't let you extrude text directly. I had to 'reverse emboss' it onto an existing 3D object, then 'cut extrude' another background 3D object to remove the one I had to create to emboss text. Kinda backwards it seems to me. Does anyone have a better solution for 3D text in Inventor?
I then proceed to give myself a crash course in 3D design using AutoDesk Inventor (free for students). This guy's video tutorial series is great: youtube.com/user/robcohee
Anyway so this is a Thank You to them for being awesome and hosting such a great contest. I encourage people to give their blog a check out. I am certainly a loyal reader!
I'm a little stumped by Inventor as it doesn't let you extrude text directly. I had to 'reverse emboss' it onto an existing 3D object, then 'cut extrude' another background 3D object to remove the one I had to create to emboss text. Kinda backwards it seems to me. Does anyone have a better solution for 3D text in Inventor?
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3D text Thank You for Wired Insider by madsci1016 is licensed under the Attribution - Share Alike - Creative Commons license.
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Not sure what version of inventor you are using, but you can extrude text in Inventor 2010 and later (possibly also in older versions, I don't have one to verify with). When you go into sketch mode use the "Text" tool to write whatever you want, then exit sketch mode, select "Extrude" and click on your text and it will extrude it out for you.