Bending Text onto a curved surface

There, I moved it out of Pro.
I don’t understand what you mean by ‘You did not avoid the main answer we must not discuss that.’ What does that mean?
What part are you have a problem with in SU8, I can’t find anything that doesn’t work.

roborizino (4ays ago)
Hello again… I tried going along with your animated screen shot concerning fitting text on a curved surface, like an awning. Whenever I “place” the sample text on a cylindrical surface, a red message comes up saying that you cannot push/pull curved or push/pull surfaces. If you can get me through that, I think I will have learned the trick. I appreciate your help.

I had answered that several times already, read the thread properly.
All my subsequent answer could have been is, ‘At no stage did I use pushpull, and yes I agreed with you that you will get that error message if you try to use pushpull on a curved surface.’
I chose not to continue repeating myself.
So, not that it is any of your business, i did answer the main question several times.
Would you like me to point out all your answers that fall short of perfect?
I really don’t appreciate snide comments suggesting I’m avoiding the question.

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jean_lemire_13d
Hi folks.

Have you tried placing the text on a flat face and then bending the flat face containing the text to match the curve of the awning ?

Just ideas.

I followed this and linked Chris Fullmers Shape-Bender (because I use that tool often) - no reaction.

Off course one must not use plugins, but when a beginner puts a questions and describes his difficulties, than I prefer a simple way which needs no questions about error messages afterwards.
I must not explaine You the simple method?

The error message in my german version ist much shorter “Komponente kann hier nicht platziert werden”.
Nothing about push/pull and so on.

Hi Lynne,

Your color by layer idea would have to happen a different way… ALL of the work which @Box shows in his animation should be done on Layer0.

If you want to change layers, then that can happen by moving your text onto a different layer from within the Entity Info panel. Select your text, and choose a different layer from the layers pulldown menu.

BUT be very careful about drawing directly onto Layer1 for example… the better practice here is to always draw directly to Layer0, and then reassign your geometry after the fact. Drawing directly onto layers other than 0 can cause problems with missing elements—SketchUp doesn’t support layers in the same fashion that other programs do.

In putting the rest of your idea together… in case you don’t already know,… go into the Layer Options and also choose ‘Color By Layer’.

Your idea will, and should work… just be careful about drawing onto layers other than SU’s default layer0.

Chris…did you per chance make a video for that text draping technique.
I’m still stick.
Thank-you,. RoB

Rob try following my vids and forget about using Push Pull. At no point do I use Push Pull.
Use the Scale tool to enlarge the complete text in one go so it extends through the surface in both directions.

Not yet Rob. Maybe tonight if I have the time. I haven’t forgotten.

There is no need for a video. Draping text on the warped surface is the heavy way - to put the text on the flat bottom is the easy way - to intersect is the same way: <img src=“//cdck-file-uploads-global.s3.dualstack.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/sketchup/original/3X/e/0/e02641dfee9951f98a9e2772d301ee7fc0cb01ca.jpg” width=“690” height="4

The inverse of what @miller shows above would be to project a texture.

I’m outa here…

Nice simple solution that allows you to place the text exactly where you want it to be.

Something is not working right . . will not let me push the letters into the part . . the part will grow thicker or thinner but letter stay put ! Glowtop.skp (1.5 MB)

From your cryptic description, I can’t tell exactly what you’re having problems with but I can extrude the letters into that disk shape with no problem. Maybe you could explain clearly what you’re doing and what you’re trying to accomplish.

Why did you start a new thread and add to this one on the same topic? What does your problem have to do with bending text?

Thats okay delete this one I could not find the other one right away . . you can delete this one !
I was trying to push the letters into it so that it had holes where letters were so to speak !

You mean like I show in my screen shot?

The one on the right side ? If so yes ! and centered on the 2.5 mm disk . .

Did a copy and paste of this to Libre Office to printout and use next time I am trying to push letters into a part !

watch the Box’s gif again…

THIS IS THE LINK

notice he used a negative number, because 3d Text has glueing properties…

john

Mr. Miller…I got sidetracked for a few days, but the only thing holding me up is fitting text on an awning. What I did here was create a cylinder, then I hollowed it out and cut it in half. Your video tutorial goes so fast I can’t see the unglue process…Could you please extrapolate? I appreciate any help or advice you can give me.Here’s a screen shot of the mess I made.