Text in a curve

here you go...

You're not too stupid, it's just the learning curve everyone has to climb for any software.

Look at my take in the joined file. My workflow was this :

• https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Draft_ShapeString to create a string (don't forget to specify a font file, or it will not work)
• https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Draft_Downgrade on the shape string (it separate letters as faces)
• https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Draft_Downgrade on each letter (it transforms the face to a wire)
• I create the path with https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Sketcher_CompCreateArc (but you can use other tools)
• As the font I use separate each letter, I have to repeat the following operation for each wire :
  • https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part_Sweep with each wire and each time the same arc as path. Note that I ticked the boxes "Make solid" and "Frenet" (if you want to experiment, feel free to untick those and see what happens)
• For the letters "A" and "e" I used https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part_Cut to substract the inside of the letters to have the holes in them
• Optional : When it's all done, I used https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Draft_Upgrade to join all the letters in on shell (more useful to use as one object)

PS : Don't forget that a https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Body is a special data structure used to make 1 continuous object, it doesn't handle multiple objects. For that you want https://wiki.freecadweb.org/Part.

Have fun