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Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:35:17 GMT

I can do that, but won't, since your first reply answered my question exactly as I had asked it. I've added Monika's post with the link to her image as "helpful".

Just a limitation of the "correct" and "helpful" system, but I think this discussion as it stands with the marked messages should be understandable for future readers.

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:28:20 GMT

I think it will. I wish we could remark Monika's post as the real answer.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:14:15 GMT

Done. Wound up with quite a few "helpful" suggestions, since my original question led to a different approach than what I had asked about, but if it helps others navigate through all these posts that's cool.

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 05:07:29 GMT

You know photodrawken you can mark some of the postings about using rounded corners as "helpful" including your last post.

Other users might like to have it pointed out to them when they do a search.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 04:58:55 GMT

Just a final note going back to my original question: Starting with a Rounded Rectangle, I can convert the anchor points to smooth and move their handles out to get a fairly sharp corner. It's not a crisp corner, but for the purposes of mapping art to the box, it's good enough and the output raster image reads fairly well as a non-rounded corner box:

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:10:00 GMT

Yes! That was it, works well for this example:

Thanks again.

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:53:11 GMT

Thanks, will give it a test.

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:51:02 GMT

Yes, you can do that. But the rounded rectangle only has corner points. You need to convert them to smooth points.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:33:33 GMT

How so, then? Are you saying that starting with a rounded rectangle is not the way to do it?

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:26:00 GMT

I can do this with 3 faces, one being the large one round the object.

As I said: you need smooth points. Really smooth points. Not just points that look like so.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 22:15:54 GMT

Monika,

Yes, I've really tried this on a box with rounded edges.

Thanks for the link to the image you did a while ago. It got me thinking about changing my approach, so I first drew a rounded rectangle and used it as a plan view (the bottom face) for the box. Then I extruded it (without using a bevel) to create the box. That left me with 10 "faces" to use in the mapping window, which is an improvement from the 40 "faces" I got using my original method.

Although there is no need to split the original line of text (as I first asked); for this example I still had to manually place the symbol on 5 faces. That's more than a bit fiddly, but do-able for sure:

I didn't get one large face encompassing all the sides and rounded edges, as your explanation seemed to imply. (This is using Ai CS6.)

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:46:56 GMT

Ken,

if you had really tried the box with round edges, you would have observed that it will indeed work.

not too long ago I have posted this on the forum: http://vektorgarten.de/img/tut/map-container.png

It's one map and there's no need to piece it together like in a jigsaw

Monika

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:48:51 GMT

Monika,

See this Web site:

http://www.merriam-webster.com/

It's a really neat thing called a "dictionary", where you can learn the difference between "complaining" and an "observation".

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 08:03:47 GMT

photodrawken wrote:

If that's the only way to do it, it would obviously not work if I wanted the "box" shape to have rounded edges.

yes, THAT will work. Why don't you try before complaining? You'll need true smooth points in the shape you're extruding. Then you'll get one big area to map your art on.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 06:32:35 GMT

Thanks again, got it.

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:38:37 GMT

You have to align it manually you can rotate the symbol resize it and reposition it and there is a live preview on the canvas of what you are doing.

Just move it around.

You'll be fine.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:14:44 GMT

OK, but how does one get the text to match up from one side to another? Especially if I want the line of text not horizontal, but running up from lower left to upper right?

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:06:27 GMT

I just took the one symbol and repositioned it on the three surfacesas the text will crop automtically as it is off the mapped surface so you don't have to cut it just repositioned it in the Mappin UI.

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:46:20 GMT

It is not he bes solution but that is the way it works

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:37:44 GMT

Thanks, I was afraid of that.

So, I would have to

Draw a flattened box shape.
Position the text as I want it to align.
Split the text line into the appropriate sections, and create symbols for each.
Extrude the rectangle into a 3D box.
Apply the appropriate symbols to each side of the extrusion, individually.

If that's the only way to do it, it would obviously not work if I wanted the "box" shape to have rounded edges.

Hmmmm...I think it's time for me to finally learn to use TrueSpace....

Ken

Re: Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:26:18 GMT

That is not going to work the way you want it to.

You can only map to one surface at a time so you will have match thre instances of the symbol manually.

Wrap a line of text around 3 sides of a 3D "box"?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 04:21:15 GMT

Ai CS6.

If I draw a rectangle and use Extrude&Bevel to create a 3D "box" shape, how do I wrap a single line of text around three of the sides? I've created a Symbol from the text, and it shows up in the "Map Art" dialog window's "Symbols" selection, but only one face of the 3D box is shown at a time. I was hoping to see a flattened box shape showing all six faces so I could accurately place the line of text. Similar to what you see when you revolve a path to get a 3D object.

It's even worse if I apply a bevelled edge to the extrusion -- then there are 40 separate "faces" to deal with.

Ken