letters on a banner 3-d

[Michelle]

Is there a way to make text 3-d. I wanted to put a banner on a building with a sign that has legible letters on the fabric and is an object that can be seen in 3-d.

I'm using V12 0n xp

[Ray Libby]

Select the text: Text menu > TrueType to Polyline then extrude.

[Kaare Baekgaard]

Imageprop is better.

[Biplab]

If you want the text to appear along a curve - use text along path command - with a NURBS path.

[Michelle]

I assume I can make a banner waving in the breeze with NURBS.

i'll look it up thanks for your help

[Michelle]

I turn letters into truetype but then how to extrude...as they disappear

[Kaare Baekgaard]

Imageprop is still better.

Make the 2D banner in Photoshop or other program - or even in vectorworks (take a screen dump of the finished graphics. If you've got photoshop, you can add the shadows needed to make the banner look 'live'. Imort the cropped imge file as an image prop. Disable auto-rotate towards viewer and constant reflection, enable make plug-in object - then you can scale the prop freely without worrying about mapping.

[eikonDave]

I turn letters into truetype but then how to extrude...as they disappear

Did you make sure to ungroup the new polyline before extruding?

[Guest]

There's a tech tip in the Knowledge Base on create 3D text along a specific path.

search for text, or 3D, or path.