Creating text protrusions on a cylindrical surface

[Guest]

Once you have your datum curve on the surface, create an Area Offset feature:Insert > Advanced > Area Offset > Sket Region > SideNrmToSkt). Use a make datum for the sketching plane tangent to the cylinder at the location of the text. In sketcher, Use Edge > Loop, and select the existing datum curve text that you had before. Enter a postive offset for protrusions, negative offset for a cut.



This works best with minimum text. If you have a lot of text, sketcher can take a long time to regenerate because you have a lot of little skeched entities.

 

[Jake]

Create a surface, can be a copy. Use flatten quilt. Sketch an extruded protrusion on the flat quit and then create a solid bend which will automatically bend it back to it's original shape. This is robust and doesn't take long to regen.

 

[adicar01]

if the inscription will be neccessary in programing room, and the programing guy is work with Pro/E, then make it simple:

Cosmetic -> Groove

adicar@home.ro

 

[Mike]

How is cosmetic groove different from projecting a datum curve?

If you project a datum curve you can at least cross over multiple surfaces. This may be quicker in some cases for programming but I usually need to show the text to the client in its finished state before they can approve it.

 

[adicar01]

Cosmetic - > Groove it's one Pr/E definition function used to engraving only if you use Pro/NC, if not it's only one projected curve.

adicar@home.ro