Hi @snelson
Rhino doesn’t have a function for that. If you’re doing only a few letters than it might be ok doing it manually but then you if you want to change font you’ll have to do it all over again.
I think Grasshopper has a way, here is the link to a similar topic.
How To Model this “Inflated” type of letters? - Rhino - McNeel Forum
Edit:
And within that post Holo describes his manual way of doing it…
Another road if you want to model it is through subD.
One approach is:
- Draw the outline
- Make a planar surface
- Quadremesh that plane with the number of polygons fit for the shape (Use preview)
- ToSubD the mesh and pull it up with the Gumball while holding Ctrl to extrude it
- Adjust the internal mesh faces and edges.
RM