Hi Buddycom
How did I put the lettering on the plane? It was quite simple really. The plane was drawn in 3 parts i.e. The fusalage, the wings and the tail plane. Once I had imported these as seperate objects and manipulated them using the text manipulations to get the plane shape, I returned to Xara and using the fusalage as a starting point produced a rough estimation of the livery to then export it as a bitmap texture to apply to the shape in Xara 3D. From there you can get the main deminensions required, and by swapping between the two programs add extra details as required. It's trail & error but it's no problem in Xara. I enclose the Xara bitmap I used for the plane. (The yellow border is only added to show the overall dimension, and was not part of the original bitmap export texture)
I have recently completed a mobile phone in Xara 3D in which the keypad buttons needed to be a different font size than the casing. However it was quite easy to adjust the keypad fill textures within the overall casing by trial & error to eventually get them to match the raised key buttons within Xara 3D.
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