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creating a "tube" along a path for a logo

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Jocky

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Mar 21, 2003
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I have some text that i want to look like it is made out of a tube not flat which is what happens when i extrude the text. Is there any way i can do this so that my text looks like it is tubular (it doesn't have to be hollow, just round).
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I don't have Max in front of me right so my instructions are vague. Create the the text and and crate a tube/cylinder.
Make the text about the same size as the tube but with a longer extrusion. Position the text in the tube. Then do a boolean cutout.
 
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Thanks fizzak for your response, unfortunately (due to my bad explanation!) what i need to know is how i can get a word that runs along a spline. The best example i can give is a pipe that follows a word - for example if i took a pipe cleaner and bent it into a word so that it was one long pipe but splet out a word.
Hope that makes sense.
Thanks anyway
 
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