Wrap Won't Wrap a Featureon a Cylinder 2

[quest4k]

Good morning, I have a fully constraind feature, a hollow arrow with the letters FLO in it, basically a small flow stamp. It is on a plane and I would like to wrap it on a cylinder, but it fails everytime. I have used wrap with pure text and that works, but as soon as the arrow comes into the picture it fails. Am I doing something wrong here? Any ideas? I would eventually like to put this in a library, because I have to put this on hundred of parts. Thank you in advance for any help or ideas.

 

[dgowans]

FAQ559-1177

Mooload wasn't working when I tried, so I used yousendit.com

 

[quest4k]

In theory the file is here:

http://www.savefile.com/files/5937781

Thanks.

 

[dgowans]

guest4k,

Try putting your sketched arrow and text on your CL plane. The wrap features worked for me when I did this.

 

[quest4k]

Thanks again, but coincident8 in sketch7 is "suppose" to be to the CL. I tried a couple of things to get the text onto the CL, but then I can not get it back inside the arrow. I did take a clas in this, but those people don't know what they are doing. So I am learnign this on my own and with a little help from the people here.

 

[dgowans]

Put your sketches on the center PLANE and constrain to the centerline.

 

[quest4k]

Thanks, I will try it, but is there a way to move the sketches from one plne to another, without redrawing them?

 

[dgowans]

Expand the feature tree, expand the wrap feature, RMB on the sketch, Edit sketch plane, pick the desired plane.

 

[quest4k]

Ok, dumb question time, how do I contrain text to the CL? It still is not working.

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

There is an insertion point in the text (usually at the bottom LH corner) which can be dimensioned to.


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[dgowans]

http://s48.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=0P1X1F8OOMIL72IA2RN40V7SOR

Take a look at how this was done - you had some unnecessary construction geometry in there which may have been a source of confusion.

To your last question, CBL is correct, you can dimension to the sketch point. You had specified a sketch line in your text which controlled the position of the text.

 

[quest4k]

Well, for what it is worth I did find the insertion point. Added some dimensionms and promptly got the old wrap bomb. Besides shooting it, and suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[quest4k]

Think I won't press my luck, so I will go out and have a beer to celebrate, the dang thing finally worked. For my next magic trick, I think I will try and put it in a library. Thanks for all of the help, it is deeply appreciated.