I’m pulling my hair out. I’ve SEARCHED, Googled, and pushed every button and still can’t figure out how to do this one simple thing. I’ve designed a small object that has flat surfaces. I would like to imprint on one surface. Ideally I’d like to engrave our logo on that surface, but if I’m limited to using stock fonts, that’s okay. How do I ‘glue’ a text object to a surface and engrave it into that surface? And, please be kind - I’m fairly new to Rhino so I don’t know all the ways to manipulate curves. Thank you!
Hi Ken - use TextObject to create the text - use Output=Solids. Place the text on the target object - there are different ways to do that, but I would place it so that all of the text penetrates slightly into the part. Then, BooleanUnion or BooelanDifference, depending on whether you want embossed or debossed text.
-Pascal
Just got back to it. Thank you for your response. I’ll give it a try.
Yup - that’s it! Thank you.
Magic! That worked. Is it true that I have to “BooleanDifference” each word separately? When I did two separate TextObjects and tried "Boolean"ing them at the same time, one disappeared. Also, I laid down four separate words on the item and "Boolean"d them separately. They were all visible in Rhino, but when I exported them in an .stl file, the last word I did disappeared. Very strange.
Thank you for your help!
OK, by ignoring the definition of insanity, after about the fifteenth try, the fourth word printed. I have no idea why. Anyway, thank you for helping!
Ken