3D Arc Text

[maggelanw]

I am trying to design a key chain, and I would like to write a 3D text on an arc. Is there a solution to that chalenge, other than drawing every letter with a polyline and then press pulling it?

 

I am working in ACad 2008

[MSasu]

There is the TXTEXP command, part of Express extension pack; this will convert text entities in polylines. The end result will require some cleaning of the inner lines.

You should have access to this pack since seems to have full version of AutoCAD (you talked about 3D modeling).

[maggelanw]

I tryed that too. But it did not work out at all. I only got as far as drawing an arc, wrote along it with that arctext command and from there nothing works. Any other options ???

[MSasu]

I'm afraid we were talking of two different commands, both part of Express pack. The ARCTEXT will draw a label aligned on an arc, but the result is a custom entity not supported by TEXTEXP command that I sugested above. Luckily you may convert the arcalignedtext item to text entities by applying EXPLODE command; only next call TEXTEXP.

[fuccaro]

I see that you try to use AutoCAD to get an artistic result. You may find THIS interesting as well.