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Figure 3-78
2.
The
Construct | Combine | Solid
Drill
operation leaves me with the text
that was in the background layer “sten-
ciled” onto the plane. (Unlike a Boolean
operation, all these polys
are
connected
— there is no need to merge points.)
and/or X axes, Bend would have made all
our letters non-planar, which Triple may or
may not have been able to make sense out
of (because a poly in the shape of a letter is
so very complex).
However, if we want our flying logo to
look even cooler than it already does, we
can use one of the Boolean operations to
add some curve to our text. (Light scatters
so much better off a subtle curve than it
does off a flat plane. This is part of knowing
how to make something look professional.)
Before we move on to beveling and
smooth-shifting, there is one more cool
thing I want to show you how to do with
Booleans.
With the Bend tool, we got our text to
bend around the Z axis. But if we had also
wanted our text to bend around the Y
