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Overview: Want to know how to make 3d text? Ill show you.

Step 1: lets start with the text object itself. OBJECT > SPLINE PRIMITIVE > TEXT This creates the basic text shape. After youve typed in what you want, it should look something like this:

Step 2: Next we drop our text spline into a EXTRUDE NURBS object, to...yes, EXTRUDE it. OBJECTS > NURBS > EXTRUDE NURBS

This will make your text 3d, I usually keep my settings like this:

This is the render with no matierials:

And perhaps with some matierials on it?

Questions? Mail me.