Wrapping Text

[peterbrown77]

Does anyone have a good technique for projecting text on a
cylinder? I've done the usual Edit>Project, but the results
are not adequate because it still distorts the text
proportions the further away from tangency the text curves.
I need something that is accurate as I am going to use the
text to laser mark some cylindrical parts.

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Edited by: peterbrown77

 

[tobbo]

did you try wrap ? (cant see your pic)


//Tobias

 

[csusie]

wrap maintains the original length of the object that was
wrapped. But you can only do it on "ruled" surfaces.
"ruled" surfaces are flat in at least 1 direction
(extrudes, cones, cylinders all meet this criteria) You
can imagine any other surface it would require a decal or
sticker to stretch to lay "flat" on that surface

 

[britineeng]

instead of wrap try "project"

 

[jsantangelo]

Wrap is pretty easy especially on a cylinder. The part that everyone seems to forget is to add a Coordinate while in a sketch (see 1:00 in video below).

After that wraps are very easy. You are limited to ruled surfaces as csusie mentioned above (extrudes, revolves).

http://santangelo-eng.com/proe_tuts/simple_wrap.swf (8.7 MB)




Edited by: jsantangelo

 

[vass]

I had to put 1200 characters text on conical surface . The
only way to do this in reasonable time was with Spinal Bend.

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[rmatija]

Look


2010-11-11_002908_wrapped-text.prt.1.zip


Best regards