I need to wrap a long text around and around a shape as a spiral in Inkscape or Corel for art. And go…
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Text on a Path is your friend in Inkscape…
Draw the desired path. Select both text and path, then use the Text → Put on Path command. The text should now appear along the path.
Here’s a video I found…
Edited: #$@! discourse editor keep “finishing” my posts before I’m ready…
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Affinity Designer has the best text wrapping capability I have seen of all the software options @markevans36301. There are several YouTube videos that show its capability.
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My advice, once you do it in Inkscape or Corel, is to go through and do custom kerning on the text around the curves, if you are able to do so. It’s a little tiny touch that makes a huge difference and most non-professional designs don’t do it.
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Couldn’t you do it in Fusion 360 by applying the text to a transparent object? It sounds like you are wanting a text spiral rather than a 2D path…
Or maybe there is a way to do it using the 3D options in Photoshop or Illustrator. I’ll have to look into that.
This is 2d but I am ashamed of all the times I have given up on Inkscape and did something in Fusion 360 because that is what works for me. 
Anyway, thank you all, I didn’t get exactly what I wanted but I got something great that will finish in 3 hours! And I learned a whole lot about Inkscape tonight!
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I struggled with getting text on the inside of a circle in Inkscape until I learned after the text to path you select just the circle and use the flip button in the tool bar.
Not as full featured as AI, but a very capable tool for free!
@marmak3261 has been instrumental in my Inkscape education. He knows it very well. PM him and he can help you.
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Jules I think it was did a tutorial on this in the MATRIX sheet of tutorials.
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Yes, I have one in there for wrapping around a path, but wasn’t sure about the spiral aspect of the equation in Inkscape. 
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