In SketchUp, the workflow for a Shape Bender is distinct and educational:

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Modern furniture design often favors organic, flowing lines over rigid boxes. A designer creating a curved wooden chair leg can model the leg straight (for ease of detailing and texturing) and then apply a bending operation to give it the ergonomic curve required for comfort. In product design, a logo placed on a curved bottle must be "bent" to match the bottle's cylindrical surface to appear

It works on everything from simple wooden planks to complex 3D text and intricate wrought-iron railings.

Once you have the basics down, you can push Shape Bender much further.

Since "Shape Bender" is most commonly associated with a popular SketchUp plugin for curving geometry, I have provided a guide on how to use it. If you meant bending text in other design software like Photoshop or Illustrator, those instructions are included as well. 1. Using the "Shape Bender" Plugin (SketchUp) Shape Bender plugin by Chris Fullmer

Let’s walk through bending a simple lamppost railing along a serpentine path.