Text Modifier Based on Autodesk Platform

Placing And Beveling Text

The modifiers which help in making 3d text and Logos are called bevel modification. This modifier helps to view the actual text into 3d text. Figure 1 shows example of Beveling Text. (Livio De Luca et al. 2006)

Figure 1.

Example of beveling text

Working Procedure

• 1.

  Draw a shape using spline, Rectangle spline or Circle spline.

• 2.

  Select the shapes and then click on the Bevel modifier from the Modifier list.

• 3.

  On modifiers list, choose from the below options; (Debabrata Samanta et al. 2011)

  • Capping: Select option called Start and/or End to cap with z value highest or lowest respectively. The end is open when either is off respectively.

  • Cap type: Click on Morph to make cap faces which is suitable for morphing process, or Click on Grid to make cap faces in order to look like grid pattern, Grid is better than morphing.

  • Surface: Click on liner sides for line intersect between segments, or select Curved sides for the segment intersection that gives a bezier curve.

  • Segments: Total number of segments which is made between the levels. Figure 2 shows Segment part of text.

Figure 2.

Segment part of text

• Smooth Across Levels: Which is applied to group of the edges of the beveled object to smoothen them?

• Generate Mapping Coordinates: Which helps in the material mapping of the object. (C.H. Esteban et al. 2003)

• Intersections: This prevents the lines intersecting within the objects(alphabets).this is achieved by adding one more vertex in the outline and transforming sharp corners into flat lines.

• Bevel Values: This type of modifiers supports to achieve 2-4 levels of beveling of the objects