Recently, I produced a set of letter stamps for a friend. He has now asked if I can produce a special stamp with a maple leaf icon. He has offered an Autocad file of the desired icon.
Is there a way for me to access a special character when making 3D labels?
I found that Symbola has the maple leaf character, and it does paste into the 3D Text window. But, when placed it shows the two non-Unicode question mark characters on Windows, and a different pair of strange characters on Mac.
I could add it to Illustrator using the Glyphs panel, but an exported DXF failed to import into SketchUp. So I exported as SVG, opened that, and then exported as DXF.
So the .dxf and .dwg files had no edges and import into SU failed. I imported the .dxf into LO however with no problem. Then exported an image as a PNG, converted it to BMP and used BMP Tracer to get it into SU. A little convoluted but it worked.
I would still have to have this image as part of a font for picking it up as part of 3D text, right?
This image is to be used to create a stamp for use in marking his pottery. I recently did a set of letter stamps for him with lots of help from this forum.
Yes. In order to use it as 3D Text it would need to be a glyph in a font however to make a thing in SketchUp to use for his stamp, you donāt need it to be 3D Text. You can combine 3D of his name with the geometry of the maple leaf if you need to.
How would I get this in to my desktop? I assume that I would attach it to the basic stamp block I talked about in my September post āMirrored Fontsā. In that case I used 3D text, but in this one would I attach the maple leaf bmp to the square face of the stamp block and then extrude the image?
In the file I sent you via e-mail thereās a flat maple leaf but itās geometry that you can use. Scale the leaf shape as needed to get it to the correct and extrude the leaf to the desired thickness. You can then add it to the text as needed.
Remember that the text created with the 3D Text tool isnāt really all that special. Itās just a component containing a bunch of geometry that happens to be shaped like alphabet or other text characters.