Any way to curve along a cylinder vertically?

[thestumbler]

Any way to get text to follow the curve of a cylinder when it is rotated 90 degrees?
In this snippet, you can see it appears flat, and doesn't curve along the surface of the cylinder.

rad1=3;
rad2=3;
%cylinder(r1=rad1,r2=rad2,h=40, $fn=100); //Partially visible "base" object
text_on_cylinder(t="Text",r1=rad1,r2=rad2,h=40, rotate=90, font="Liberation Mono", direction="ttb", size=5);

[brodykenrick]

Hi Chris,

If I understand you correctly then the simplest way I can think of doing
this is to use the text sitting "flat" as you mention and then to create a
separate sphere of slightly larger radius to cut off the text with the
spherical curvature you seem to be after.

I am not using this code currently so can't execute your sample but if you
post images of your results I can provide my thoughts.

Cheers,
Brody
On Wed, 18 May 2016 at 10:39, Chris Lott notifications@github.com wrote:

Any way to get text to follow the curve of a cylinder when it is rotated
90 degrees?

In this snippet, you can see it appears flat, and doesn't curve along the
surface of the cylinder.

rad1=3;
rad2=3;
%cylinder(r1=rad1,r2=rad2,h=40, $fn=100); //Partially visible "base" object
text_on_cylinder(t="Text",r1=rad1,r2=rad2,h=40, rotate=90,
font="Liberation Mono", direction="ttb", size=5);

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[brodykenrick]

I meant cylinder on the cutting shape. See the examples for how this was done with a sphere - see rounded.