How to emboss a USB icon?
How to emboss a USB icon?
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Hello all,
I'm trying to emboss a usb icon onto a solid, without success.
The process I'm doing is this:
1. create the usb icon in Illustrator, export as DWG file.
2. import this DWG file in NX into the work part.
3. delete the cross hatching to be left with only the splines of the icon.
4. use the move tool to position and scale the icon where it should be.
5. use these splines to create an emboss feature on the main solid.
Upon creating the emboss feature, an error message says "new and changed faces or edges have failed geometry check. see syslog for details."
I've tried using the extrude tool instead, but the result is often warped/distorted surfaces on the extruded sides.
Surely this must be a common task, and in Solidworks I've not encountered problems with this. What is the correct procedure in NX?
I'm trying to emboss a usb icon onto a solid, without success.
The process I'm doing is this:
1. create the usb icon in Illustrator, export as DWG file.
2. import this DWG file in NX into the work part.
3. delete the cross hatching to be left with only the splines of the icon.
4. use the move tool to position and scale the icon where it should be.
5. use these splines to create an emboss feature on the main solid.
Upon creating the emboss feature, an error message says "new and changed faces or edges have failed geometry check. see syslog for details."
I've tried using the extrude tool instead, but the result is often warped/distorted surfaces on the extruded sides.
Surely this must be a common task, and in Solidworks I've not encountered problems with this. What is the correct procedure in NX?
NX8 i7-3770K@4.3Ghz 16GB Quadro2000





RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1
RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
I don't think there are gaps, because the extrude tool doesn't complain about gaps, although it creates warped surfaces as can be seen in the attached image.
Here is part of the output from the info>object :
Closure Status Open
Degree 3
Number of Poles 100
Number of Segments 33
Number of C0 Knots 32
Number of C1 Knots 0
Number of C2 Knots 0
Rational Status Polynomial
Defining Data None
Approximate rho -2418.61543561509
IMAGE:
http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=0...
DWG:
http://files.engineering.com/getfile.aspx?folder=0...
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1
RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
www.nxjournaling.com
RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1
RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
John Lackowski
NX Support
Win 7 64bit NX 7.5.4.4 TC 8.3.1.1
RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
Here is a "workaround" to the problem.
It seems the NX DWG/DXF importer is unable to properly analyze a DWG file made in Illustrator (I don't know about DWG files made in Autocad yet), so that the DWG line entities are all converted into a single spline, which causes problems with extrude or emboss features. Now, in Solidworks this is not an issue because presumably Solidworks can analyze DWG files made with Illustrator because it converts the DWG straight line entities into "lines" and curved lines into "splines". Importing this Solidworks DWG into NX creates a group entity consisting of a correct mixture of lines and splines. Now extrude or emboss features can be created without problem.
So the workflow is now:
1. create customized icon/logo in illustrator. save as DWG.
2. import this DWG into a drawing in solidworks (select "convert to solidworks entities")
3. save this drawing as DWG again.
4. open this DWG in NX.
This solution involves using Solidworks as a go-between to correctly convert the DWG into a mixture of lines and splines. There are probably other programs that can do the same job.
Another solution for those who don't have solidworks, but it might fail in some cases:
1. create customized icon/logo in illustrator, then use the tool "cut path at selected anchor points" to cut all the anchor points in the drawing. save as DWG.
2. open this DWG in NX.
3. in case it fails, a solution might be to convert the imported entities with the "simplify curve" tool, however the problem is that it will split the original entities into a huge number of smaller lines and arcs.
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
http://www.ehow.com/how_5847999_convert-ai-ttf.htm...
John R. Baker, P.E.
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Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
You mentioned before that there are many truetype libraries with these types of icons. I've searched on google, but couldn't find any. I'm looking specifically for icons related to consumer products (power icon, battery icon, wireless icon, etc.)
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RE: How to emboss a USB icon?
http://californiafonts.com/category/logos
John R. Baker, P.E.
Product 'Evangelist'
Product Engineering Software
Siemens PLM Software Inc.
Industry Sector
Cypress, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
To an Engineer, the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.