text on perspective cube

[HJSTRECKER]

good morning, 

I am working for several days now on an issue that I am not able to solve. even by following multiple posts, videos and having disucssions with a lot of people.

so today I hope to find some help here as this community helped me already a couple of times with great solutions - thanks to all of you!

I am having an ashlar consisting of several ashlars. and each of the ashlars should have a text on it, meaning that from the 3 sides of each ashlar that are visible, I would like to place a perspective text. normal text would be great, in a next step I would love to emboss or raise the text on or in the ashlar, but having a text first is my first hurdle.

I tried to do it in Illustrator and made a perspective grid and put the text on it, but it never is exactly in perspective as the grid follows a vanishing point.

I also tried shear text in InDesign (put the graphic in, placed a text field above and sheared it) - but it looks horrible...

So is there a chance to get my font in the right perspective on each side of the ashlar?

Unfortunately I cannot attacht the *.ai File?

thank yo very much for any help! 

[Ton Frederiks · Accepted solution]

You could make the text into a symbol and use Effect > 3D and Materials > 3D (Classic) > Extrude & Bevel (Classic) to extrude a rectangle and map the symbol text to a side.

[HJSTRECKER]

that is an interesting idea, thank you ver much for the fast reply.

but I think I did something wrong because I can move the text, but it is not in perspective?

and if I extrude it (either solid or hollow) it only moves the text and not the pinkt ashlar (hollowing the pink ashlar with the text?)

I guess I am missing something?

[Doug A Roberts · Accepted solution]

Choose one of the isometric presets instead.

[HJSTRECKER]

oh dear, ha! that did the trick. marvelous! thank you!

and may I ask you, are you maybe also aware of a way how to "cut out"/extrude the text from the respective side on which the text is? the symbol mus now somehow be combined with the side,  right?

[Doug A Roberts]

Instead of using symbol mapping, use the same 3D options on the text itself:

[HJSTRECKER]

uh, now that is getting a level to high for me I guess.

I have the text and I have the ashlar marked but the ashlar is not a 3d made but made from lines...can I send the *.ai files somehow?

If i mark the text, the text is changing not the ashlar?

[Doug A Roberts]

It doesn't matter how the block is made, the 3D text is just an object sitting in front of it.

[HJSTRECKER]

ok, this I get, but how would I cut it out from the ashlar? like a negative of sitting in front of it? hollow in the ashlar?  

[Doug A Roberts]

Like this perhaps?

[HJSTRECKER]

yap, exactly like this... thank you very very much, but I am not abel to do this.

great help, thank you!

[Doug A Roberts]

Where are you getting stuck?

[HJSTRECKER]

thank you for asking 😉

make into compound path with rectangle

delete the sides

place green object beind 

these things are all new to me and I cannot translate this steps into my existing ashlar. I guess I have to know the text as I cannot edit it after being outlines, right? So I need the word I am going to use, the font and the size fixed. after that transforming it into outlines might work, but what is a compund path - I have to look this up. 

and I need another rectangle? on top of my ashlars side? and then I delete sides and place an object? that would then be the ashlar again?

that is very confusing to me but I will try to look all theses things up and do not want to waste your time as I guess what you are describing should be findable in other online resources!

[Doug A Roberts]

Just make the face of it the same colour and place it over your existing block.

A compound path is multiple paths that have a single appearance and perform a boolean operation where they overlap -- to either exclude or add. So the text is cut out from the rectangle.

The text would not be editable after creating a compound path. I can't think of a method that retains editable text.

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