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@Igull said in 3D Help:

@Subpath said in 3D Help:

Another strange Solution

Yes, I suppose I could do that too, but I have a Fusion 360 and an Onshape licence which can do pretty much anything in 3D - I was just looking for an easy way out with a 'one trick pony':-)

Neil

Understandable
But its a bit harder for Mac User.
On PC there are a few more Options

Here a Extrusion from Magix Graphics Designer
which also has such a Tool build in (PC only)

[Igull]

@Subpath said in 3D Help:

On PC there are a few more Options

You're rubbing my nose in it

[Boldline]

This is not directly related, but I've been giving thought over time to how to best create the 3D wrap around look with a vector path. I was thinking of it in terms of a dedicated shape like the existing oval and rectangle shapes, but now I'm thinking the best way to create those will be when basic 3D extrude is (hopefully) added to VS

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@Igull said in 3D Help:

@Subpath said in 3D Help:

On PC there are a few more Options

You're rubbing my nose in it

I probably should not have done that

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@Boldline

In Corel you could take any Form/ Shape
(even grouped) and extrude it
in Magix Graphics Designer too

The result in Magix is only a Bitmap
but it has more lightning, beveling options

In Corel it stay as a Vector Object where you could
break apart the parts and reuse them as vector objects

[fde101]

@Igull not sure about the demo version, but I have a paid license of Art Text 4, and I can just drag a PDF exported from VS into the Art Text window and it loads it as a 2D shape.

I can then right-click and convert to 3D after which an option to set the extrusion depth becomes available in the properties area on the right.

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@fde101 said in 3D Help:

@Igull not sure about the demo version, but I have a paid license of Art Text 4, and I can just drag a PDF exported from VS into the Art Text window and it loads it as a 2D shape.

I can then right-click and convert to 3D after which an option to set the extrusion depth becomes available in the properties area on the right.

Mmm, tried a number of PDFs all of which dragged across, but didn't show on the artboard (or only showed the bounding box - and you couldn't right click to create 3d)- seems extremely slow and very unstable (tried it on an M2 this afternoon - a bit faster, but same results) - may be something to do with the demo version. But all it has is a TRIAL watermark, everything else is supposed to work according to the info. It's probably fine for doing text and minimal 3D objects I think - might be too much heavy lifting to move all my bits around.

Thanks for the info, I'll keep the trial, might find other uses for it !

Neil