Wrapping around and carving text into a tube

[Hugues]

Hi guys,

 

I'm trying to carve text into the surface of a tube.

 

As you can see below, in voxels, the orange part is a cylinder and the black "skin" is a thin tube around the cylinder, about 2 mm thick.

 

Using the Carve tool in Voxels mode, i carved some circles all the way through the black skin to expose the orange cylinder.

 

Now what i would like to do instead of the circles, is to carve the text that is displayed on the white slab behind. The text is just an image (jpg), text is black, background is white. I would like the text to wrap around the tube and each letter would be carved through the skin completely to expose the orange cylinder. Basically i would end up with orange letters surrounded by a black skin.

 

Any help would be appreciated.

 

If i manage to do this, i promise i will post pictures of the real project, as i plan to 3d print this thing.

Edited August 10, 2015 by Hugues