Extrude Mesh and Text in Geometry Nodes

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Hello everyone. I am gaining my first experiences with Geometry Nodes and, with the valuable help from this forum, I’ve created a spiral with year numbers – thank you for the great input. Everything is generally on the right track, but now I’m facing a new challenge:

  • The paths of the spiral should have an extrusion inwards.
  • The numbers are only closed on one side.
  • At the top of the spiral, there should be an open space like at the bottom.

I’ve already tried a lot with Extrude Mesh, but I’ve only gotten strange results. Does anyone have any tips on what I might be missing here?

Thanks a lot!

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Helix 32160×1920 1.94 MB

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This is what my Node looks like:

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Node2835×1010 584 KB

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After you extrude the text join the original geo to the extruded bit to cap the bottom.

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that worked, thank you very much. now i just need know how to adjust the curve so that i have a bit of free space at the beginning before the first number appears and i’m done =)

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Ok, now you are cooking!

Heres a tip for the spacing, have a look at the trim curve node, you should be able now to work out how to use it to solve yr spacing problem.

Hope that helps you fish.

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Well the simplest solution is to add a map range behind the divide, leave 0…1 for from and adjust the to values.

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just figured it out myself, thanks for the hint! works perfect.

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