shape bender

3d printing boat maid mist

Here’s what I’ve written about so far in this series: In Part 1 – a 3D printed bear, and in Part 2, a few 3D printed cactus trees. This post will detail the most complicated of the objects I printed for this project: a customized boat. Maid of the Mist My son, whose state you’ll […]

life begins after coffee 3d model

In Part 1 of this series, I showed how to set up the elements needed to bend 3D text to fit along a curve. Here’s where I left off – I have: The curved face where the bent text will be moved back to The text itself, which will be bent The straight reference line, […]

Wrapping Text with Shape Bender: Part 1 - Preparing the Parts

I love, love, love the CLF Shape Bender extension (by Chris Fullmer, available in the Extension Warehouse). It does lots of things, but one of my favorite things to do with it is to bend 3D text along a curve. (If you need to learn how to find and install an extension from the Extension Warehouse, […]