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Extrusion options
Extrusion is basically the depth of your object—the more extrude, the deeper the object. An object with
a high level of extrude will have a very large 3D effect.
Interactive extrusion tool
For quick, interactive extrusion on your design just hover your mouse over the side of your object so
that your mouse pointer changes to the extrusion tool (see left). You can then just click and drag the
extrusion of the object. For more detailed settings, bring up the extrusion options (see below).
Ways to display extrusion options
Click the extrusion options button on the toolbar (see the icon above left).
Click the extrusion options tab on the right of your screen (don't see this?
).
Click the options menu, then select extrude.
Press Alt-E.
Apply to
These options are grayed out unless you are using a board or border design (see design options
for more information).
This allows you to alter the extrusion on the board or border separately to the text, or you can select
both to apply the same settings to both.
Gloss/matt
Gloss make the object surface reflective, matt non-reflective. The best results with glossy requires
careful positioning of the lights. See altering the text color
for more details.
Front face
Switching off display of the front face creates hollow objects and can give interesting effects. See hollow
text
for more details.
Back face
Similar to front face but controls display of the back of the objects. This has no effect unless you also
turn off
front Face or rotate animated text through 360 degrees
Outline
Produces outline objects. This is different to switching off face display. See hollow text
for more details.
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