Lindnan1, That looks like what I want, but I am not sure how 'create the letters as an image'. Bluetone, I only had one cross-section. I am not sure you could select objects on multiple corss-sections and then do a Compound as Object. Antoine's advice was to 'Convert text to Outlines', shift click on the main object and do a 'combine as compound'. It seems to work other than the arcing. I don't really need to bevel them, so Ithink Lindnan1 has a viable solution as soon as I can figure out how to accomplish what he is suggesting. Thanks, MarkV