Use text in grasshopper for engraving

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Permalink Reply by Joe Allberry on July 3, 2017 at 3:09am

Try FabTools.

Permalink Reply by Polux on July 3, 2017 at 5:54am

Thanks!

Permalink Reply by Polux on July 4, 2017 at 2:01am

Hello,

Here is my work based on Tom's code.
Somthing went wrong when bending and I don't understand why...
Do you have an idea?

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• WIP_Text_Ring.ghx, 350 KB

Permalink Reply by Marios Tsiliakos on July 4, 2017 at 2:56am

Mirror the text (yz),

It has to do with how the surface is being created.

Permalink Reply by Polux on July 4, 2017 at 3:05am

Thanks for this Marios.
I had not paid attention to that.

My real problem is that the text is much larger when rolled.
He no longer holds onto the ring as you can see on attached picture.

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• Capture.JPG, 117 KB

Permalink Reply by Polux on July 6, 2017 at 4:05am

Solution found for text! Once again thanks Tom.

Now in trouble with boolean operation.

Did anyone have an idea for me?

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• Ring_V2_06.gh, 42 KB

Permalink Reply by Polux on July 6, 2017 at 7:12am

I want to make it looks like this

But SDiff make a SUnion! Why?

No I don't, Metal preview cluster is from Peacock tool.

Permalink Reply by Polux on July 10, 2017 at 12:40am

Thank you Tom for your huge help!