"Daniel L. Isdell" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> I need a way to create beveled text. I used to use POVSB but it added the
> width of the bevels to the outside of the text body so to prevent this, I
> started by creating the text in Corel Draw, cearting a condensed version by
> using the "contourr function to make a "skinnier" version to compensate for
> the extra width added by the bevels, exporting as DXF, importing the 2D DXF
> into POVSB and extruding it and adding the Bevels. OK it's an extremely
> circuitious method but the results were really great, plus it allowed me to
> modify the font for things like logos. However POVSB seems to have gone
> away.... What other modelers do bevels text or better yet import, extrude
> and bevel 2D DXF?
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan Isdell

I recommend Soft text by Remco De Korte a regular on this server:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html

Also see my links page for alternatives.

-- 
Ken Tyler

See my 850+ Povray and 3D Rendering and Raytracing Links at:
http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html

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