Breaking TEXT with simulation?

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Post by davidjohnson // Mar 21, 2009, 7:27am

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I wanted to try to break some TEXT that has been extruded with a bevel using a simulation. I am not sure if I want the wind/fan to blow it down or to throw something through it or not but I was wondering if there is anything I should know before I begin.

Do I need to make the TEXT into single letters for this to work?

Post by Jack Edwards // Mar 21, 2009, 7:59am

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If you want the letters to move separately they need to be separate objects. That is pretty easy to do with the "select connected" selection tool and the Separate tool.

Steps:
1.) Select face on letter to be separated.
2.) Click "select connected"
3.) click "separate"
Repeat for each letter.

If you group them back up, make sure to use "Encapsulate", instead of "Encapsulate in 3D" so that they don't share a transform.

Post by davidjohnson // Mar 21, 2009, 8:12am

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Ok, this must be all new 7.6 stuff. I will have to try and find those icons because I am still a 6.6 kind of guy.
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