I am trying to put some 3D text inside a 3D graphics. So far I find two ways to make 3D text.

halirutan in “Rotating an image along a Möbius strip?”)

wordData = ImportString[ExportString["Mathematica", "PDF"], "PDF"][[1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2]]; Graphics3D[Tube[#, 0.2] & /@ Map[Append[#, 0] &, wordData, {2}]] 

J.M. in “Strategies for creating 3D text”

RegionProduct[DiscretizeGraphics[Text[Style["Mathematica", Bold, FontFamily -> "Times"]],          _Text, MaxCellMeasure -> 0.1], MeshRegion[{{0}, {2}}, Line[{1, 2}]]] 

halirutan’s method gives a set of coordinates which is easy to manipulate (for example – change position, orientation, colour etc.)

word1 = ImportString[ExportString["Hello", "PDF"], "PDF"][[1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2]]; word2 = ImportString[ExportString["World", "PDF"], "PDF"][[1, 1, 2, 1, 1, 2]]; Graphics3D[{Tube[#, 0.2] & /@ Map[Append[#, 0] &, word1, {2}],     Tube[RotationTransform[Pi/2, {1, 0, 0}][#], 0.2] & /@ Map[Append[#, 0] &, word2, {2}]}] 

How can I do the same thing with J.M.’s method?