topic Re: Curving text on a coin face? in Fusion Design, Validate & Document Forum

Curving text on a coin face?

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 01:49:23 GMT

Hi Fusion 360'rs!

I have been working on some coin designs lately. They are 2" diameter coins. I have some text that I would like to put on the coins, I would also really like to have the text curve with the coin, like some typical currancy coins.

So far I am only able to have the text on a horizontal plane. I read somewhere that I might have to make an image in Photoshop and bring it into Fusion 360. I am just looking to see what method's everyone uses? I should be able to make a photoshop picture but once in F360, how do you go about converting it into something I can extrude. Do I need to trace each part of the text?

I look forward to seeing what you can tell me. Thanks!

Chris,

Re: Curving text on a coin face?

HughesTooling — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 10:19:01 GMT

There's a program here with an option to save as DXF you could use. Or there's a tutorial here on using inkscape .

Mark

Re: Curving text on a coin face?

Anonymous — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 23:02:06 GMT

Thank you for your response Mark. I had also found this response, https://forums.autodesk.com/t5/design-validate-document/curved-text/td-p/5386771 it appears to work as well...

I am using Photoshop CC 2015 and while I can import my text in SVG and extrude, I am having issues setting up Photoshop properly dimensional's wise so that when I import the text I know it will fit into my 2" coin. I am making my PS document 2"x2" then creating a 50.8mm diameter circle, putting the text along the path. Once it gets brought into F360 it must be 10x to big. I also cant properly align it, it seems after setting the SVG I cant move it

I will have to work with this further.

Re: Curving text on a coin face?

HughesTooling — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 10:41:45 GMT

Before importing the SVG create a component and make sure it's activated then import. When you have the SVG in the component activate the top node, now when you run Move you can select the component in the browser make sure Object type is set to component.

Unfortunately Fusion doesn't read the unit information in the SVG but it quite easy to scale at import see this thread for more information.

Mark