Graphic Extrusion on a 3D Curve

[sparkfun]

Hopfully the topic isnt all messed up this time!

Greetings,<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">I have read all the great help on creating raised text on a 3D curve with great results, now I'd like to push myself a bit. I have some texted that was created by hand in Photoshop and would like to create an extrusion removal with this graphic. Any hints on how to do this and what type of file I need to save the graphic as?<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Thanks!<br style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">spark

 

[AHA-D]

If you say Photoshop I assume you're talking bitmap. So you'll first have to go through vectorizing before you can do it. CAD needs geometry to create features. I use CorelTrace for raster to vector conversions but there are free tools around also (the name of a popular one rests burried deep in memory for the moment however) Unless the text in Photoshop was created with TTF-fonts, then you can use these directly.


Alex

 

[sparkfun]

So you'll first have to go through vectorizing before you can do it.



Alex

Thats what I figured. Once that is done how do I import that as a sketch for the extrusion?

spark

 

[sparkfun]

I got some good ideas on how to go about this, thanks guys!

 

[Brian_Adkins]

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