"Tom A." wrote:
> 
> I was going to put some text on a triangle, and was wondering how to do
> it.
> 
> given a triangle with three points (p1, p2, p3) I can get a normal by
> using a cross product of (p2-p1) and (p3-p1).
> Now that I have that, I can't figure out how to use it to rotate my text
> so it is on the plane defined by the three points.
> 
> (I can position the text once I have the rotation - I was going to
> translate it to  (p1+p2+p3)/3 which puts it in the middle of the
> triangle.)
> 
> Any help?

You can for example try uv-mapping or use the 'Reorient_Trans()' macro.

Christoph

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