letters welded to a plane

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Hello.
I’m trying to do make a metal plane with letters being extruded or welded to it.
I want the letters to be the same mesh as the plane.
I’ve tried with a displace texture, the displace modifier, and modeling them and attaching them to the plane with shift+F but the results are bad. The displacement techniques require a mesh with massive complexity and even then the edges end up too rough.
And modeling and attaching them with shift+F distorts the plane.

A solution or alternative technique would be appreciated.

2

imo, make the text, convert to mesh. in edit mode, insert plane. subdivide a number of times. make faces between the letter and the plane to mimic the weld. Use muliple materials for the text faces, the weld faces, and the plane. enjoy.

3

thanks, the problem is the “make faces between the letter and the plane to mimic the weld” part. I’s so time consuming. There are 353 edges

4

oh, well then, just wrap a curve around the letters, and make it a bead like a weld with a bevel curve.

or stretch out a metaball.

or just box select all the bottom vertices of the letters and scale them outwards so it looks like they sorta melted into the plane.

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Add Text, Tab to Object mode. Alt-C to Curve. Tab back into Edit mode and with all knots UNselected add Bezier Circle. Scale to size and position so Text is central. Tab to Object mode and Alt-C to Mesh. Tab to Edit mode, select the verts of the Text and Extrude, then clean up and close ends.

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“or just box select all the bottom vertices of the letters and scale them outwards so it looks like they sorta melted into the plane.”
perfect, thanks