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Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

(OP)
Good morning, I have a model with an extruded cylinder and I create a plane and inserted into the plane a line and fully defined it and then I used off set entities to create two lines .005 on both sides of the original line and closed the profile.  Then I tried to use wrap to emboss the profile on the surface of the cylinder, but wrap did not like that at all.  So is there some ofter way of embossing the profile onto the cylindr surface?  Thank you in advance for any assistance rendered.

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

The Wrap should work. Can you post an image or file so that we can see what's happening?

cheers

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

Did you remember to change the original line to a centreline?

cheers

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

(OP)
Thanks for the responses.  Rob tried your method and it did not give me a good solution.  It fill in all of the space from the plane to the cylinder and shot all of the way thru the cylinder to the back of the cylinder.  All I am trying to do is put the measurment line on a flowmeter, which are 1 inch apart and they are .010 wide and they are rised above the cylinder surface .005-.010.  There are 3 lines in all, but I am doing them 1 at a time.  Also when I created the offsetI used the construction lines option, which I have used before.  Again thanks for the help.

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

Sounds like a revolve or revolve and pattern might be a better option for this.

In order for the offset from surface option to work well you need to place your sketch plane correctly and you might need to trim the excess geometry.

Rob Rodriguez CSWP
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SW 2007 SP 2.0

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

(OP)
Thanks for the response CorBlimeyLimey.  We are still using SW06 here due to a scrambled license file which is being fixed.  I did get something close to what I wanted by using surface-offsets and then extruding it.  I am still playing with it and maybe I will get lucky and get it right.  Thanks again.

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

I don't have SW06 installed anymore, but here's an SW07 video using the 'Offset from surface' option which rockguy first suggested.

http://screencast.com/t/Dp9iNvno

cheers

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

(OP)
Thanks again for the response.  We are not even lucky enough to have 07.  Maybe someday SW will fix our license file and IT will then install 08 and then the cow will come home as well.

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

You don't need any version of SW to watch the video. The option shown also works for SW06.

cheers

RE: Emboss a Profile on a Cylinder Surface

(OP)
Thanks again CorBlimeyLimey.  I ran the video and that is pretty much what I am now doing except I have numbers along th sides.  Well, at least now I know I am on the right track.

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