Hatch on text projected to surface not showing fully

Rhino Rhino for Windows
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Hi,
V5
text explode projected to surface apply hatch, it doesnt show or partly shows.

How can I get a filled in lettering on a surface ?
HATCH ON SURFACE issue.3dm (60.7 KB)

Cheers
Steve

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Hello- that is what BringToFront is for, if you want to use a hatch -you couls also split the surface, or use decals.

-Pascal

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Hi, its for a fuselage so BringToFront when I look at the stbd side sees the lettering also showing and back to front when I need it only for the port side.

Please explain what split the surface entails.

decals, I type decals but see no command, how do I use decals as that sounds just the job :slight_smile:
Steve

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Hello -

https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/6/help/en-us/index.htm#commands/split.htm
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/6/help/en-us/index.htm#properties/decal.htm

-Pascal

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@Steve1
@pascal linked V6; here are also V5.

https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/index.htm#properties/decal.htm
https://docs.mcneel.com/rhino/5/help/en-us/index.htm#commands/split.htm

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Hi, I cannot see how to turn my text into decal, and the only two decal tuts on you tube I find, 1 is in spanish, the other has no sound.

Is there a decent site where folk speak in english and rhino has easily findable demos, type the word decal and a tutorial is found ?

I just cant see how to select my text and make it a decal and choose the surface I want to place it on.

its a slab sides surface curving at top and bottom, but I am racing against deadline and if I spend time trying to work it out I will fail now to meet the deadline. I will have to try and study this, but its not 5 mins work, meanwhile I have projected the text to surface, given it hatch and it doesnt fill with the layer colour, try as I might I cannot get the projected text to have a colour.

I presume thats because hatch needs to be planar, and the top has a slight curve perhaps, else its gremlins.

Steve

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Decals are just masked images or textures. they work the same way as mapping textures on material confiiguration, they are not objects per sé like splitting contours on a surface.
what’s sugested above it to use PNG images with your text without background or split the surface with the letters to have different objects and apply different material to them.
If I were you I would choose splitting the surfaces because is easier to place in the right position. mapping a texture or a decal is not so handy for those tasks.