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>Sure.  Here ya go...

>My last project for Manny's Digital Fantasies and Light Speed video tapes
>had me building a fairly complex robot (ED-209-like).  Rathe than using
>image maps, I picked a pretty font and stenciled the letters into the
>missile rack, ankle, and gun pods, as well as the lettering for the walls.

>It's pretty simple:  you want the number "6" stenciled into the side of a
>box.  Make a box in modeller (say, 1x1x1 meter).  Go to another
>layer, then click on TEXT, load up any font you want (UnPact is pretty
>simple), and type "6".  Scale it so it'll look nice (from the front) on
>the box.

>Got to Multiply/Extrude an make it 1 metter deep on the Z axis.  Now you
>should have (in the backgound layer) a box, and a 6 in the FG layer.  Move
>the 6 so that, from the top and side, the 1 meter extruded part intersects
>the front of the box.  it'll look something like this:
     _______
    |       |
    |   _   |
    |  | |  |  (Top View)
    |  | |  |
    |__|_|__| ---- BOX
       | |
       |_| ------- 6

>Now, hit ] to swap layers (put the box in the FG and the 6 in the BG).
>Select Tools (I think)/Solid Boolean.  You'll get a requester with 4
>options.  Select the 3rd one (stencil) and another set of options for a
>surface name pops up.  Type in something like "6-Face" and hit return,
>then click OK.

>Now you get to wait (for a very short time...), and there should be a
>polygon in the shape of a 6 in the face of the box.  The box has the
>surface name DEFAULT, while the 6 has the name 6-FACE.  Pretty easy, huh?

>Quick note about cylinders:  you'll want to use Wrap to Sphere of Bend or
>something to warp the text around the cylind so it looks good, but if the
>curve isn't too extreme (putting a 1 cm C= logo on a 1 m wide can), it'll
>look OK (it did for the number of my robot's ankle and the missile casing,
>which is cylindrical...)
    Joe,
     When I did my number. pardon the pun, I did not extrude it. I wanted
     a painted on decal as opposed to an embossed look. I think the unextruded
     object will follow the curve better. I tried a disk on the side of a
     nosecone and it looked like you painted the emblem on. Followed the
     shape of the cone faithfully.
                                bill
 ps. Could you post a gif of your robot. My mech looks good from the top
 but from the front looks like a block, He's back in shop at the moment.


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