Okay, thanks y'all. I'll give both Blender and Meshmixer a shot, and see which one works better for us. I appreciate the feedback!
I'm doing this for my advisor at school and apparently she has done "engraving" with Meshlab before. Is there any way to do it on Meshlab, or do you think she is thinking of Blender?
I'm trying to engrave a file with text, but I cannot figure out how to do it. I can get the text file and object file to line up (see pic), but nothing more than that. I've searched through every tutorial I can find, but still nothing on engraving/indenting/etc. Basically I want to do the "mesh boolean difference" function from Rhino. Any help would be greatly appreciated.