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Blender Tutorial for Beginners – Carved Text

This Video is a Blender beginner tutorial that shows how to make text carved into a sphere. To accomplish this, the Boolean modifier is used.

Video Info

  • Video published on YouTube Mar 23, 2013
  • Blender version used is 2.66

Using a Newer Version of Blender?

There have been changes to Blender since this video tutorial was made. Fortunately, as of Blender version 2.78a, the changes that affect the video are minor. The relevant changes are listed below.

  • The Add menu is now at the bottom – Or you can press Shift A.
  • At 5:40 – After typing 40, press the Enter key twice instead of once.
  • At 5:46 – Press A once or twice until all of the vertices are deselected.
  • At 9:14 – Click the drop down menu, under the Object entry box, and select Carve.

    Drop Down Menu Location
    Drop Down Menu Location

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