Text on cylindrical surfaces

[sdb999]

How do you place text on a cylindrical surface and have it conform to it's curvature?

 

[pdybeck]

Use the new Wrap Tool in SolidWorks 2004. You can sketch text on a plane, and then either, emboss, deboss, or scribe it directly onto the cylindrical face. Check out the Wrap feature under Help.

 

[sdb999]

How bout 2003 sp4.0?

 

[MechEng13]

You can do an offset from surface, and pick the cylindrical surface. If you want a cut, then you would need to use a plane that is tangent to the surface, if it is to be a boss then you would need to place the plane sufficently within the cylinder to get all your text in it.



Alan M. Etzkorn
Product Engineer
Nixon Tool Co.

http://www.nixontool.com

 

[TheTick]

http://www.baren-boym.com

Look for "Text Effects" in their products page.

 

[SBaugh]

I have an example of the way I did it back in SW01 at my website.

http://www.scottjbaugh.com/Design_Portfolio/SW Models.htm

Logo on a curved Surface

To be honest it was crude at the time, but it worked and

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.3dvisiontech.com

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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