Please Help - Helical Text Needed!!!

[Sirius]

Is there anything in existance that can wrap text up/around a tube face in a helix of say 30 deg?? for engraving purposes. To make things worse, it has to be in 'arial black'font 6mm high and the letters which make up the words need to read horizontal all the time like the diagonal words in a crossword puzzle!!.
I can draw the helix path in MDT OK and could probably 'cut out' the text from a thin solid strip. Its just creating the text aligned in that fashion and wrapping it around in a helix so all the words are readable on the face of the tube.
I really dont know how this can be achieved so any advice is very welcome and time scale is pretty tight.

Please does someone know how to achieve this?????.


Thankyou,

Sirius.

 

[Sirius]

It has been braught to my attention that I could do this in Illustrator or PowerCad. I may get to use a friends Illustrator for this purpose and if it doesnt(I cant) do it Im going to forget about the job. Thanks anyway, but unless theres a very simple way to achieve the above in MDT, illustrator will have to suffice or forget the job!.

Thanks anyway,

Sirius.