Introduction to TinkerCAD: Part 5 - Adding Text

[@terilandy46]

I tried this but my letters fell off

[@dugy40]

You’ll see a curved line with an arrow at each end. Should be three of them. Letting you rotate 3 diff ways.

[@midwesttumblersllc3822]

What if you want the text to be indented in the model instead of raised?

[@EastLansingPublicLibrary]

If you want the text to be indented (“engraved”) into the object as negative space, you will need to select the HOLE option for the text element. By default, the text object will be a SOLID shape, but you can select the text object and change it to be a HOLE (this will make it look transparent). Then, align the text with the rest of your object as desired, select both objects, and GROUP them (CTR+G). This will cause the text object, now a hole, to remove material from the other object where it overlaps, thus creating negative space.

[@thetruthispermanent916]

Just go below negative ten

[@terrybaileysr.3714]

But how do you do vertical text instead of horizontal?

[@SportsEditsAus]

that's exactly what I'm trying to find, a video, but I can't find any!

[@_ShotsByJayden]

you have to rotate it with ur cursor

[@terrybaileysr.3714]

@@_ShotsByJayden You can rotate the word and have the letters move correctly? Or are you rotating one letter at a time?

[@te_gucci303]

@@terrybaileysr.3714 if you click shift and select all your letters you can group them together and then you can rotate all the letters as one

[@terrybaileysr.3714]

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