Extruded cut to depth on curved surface

[jfixsen]

I have a cylinder that I want to make a extruded logo onto at specified depth. I was thinking of making a surface at say 0.040 under the exterior of the cylinder and then extruding up to that surface, but I don't want the surface to show in the model. I want the extrude to follow the contour of the cylinder. Any suggestions?

 

[kdem]

You're not going to be able to use the extrude tool since it requires a flat sketch. You can create an offset surface,project or wrap a sketch onto the cylinder surface, project the sketch onto the offset surface, use the boundary blend tool to create surafces between the to sketches, merge the surfaces, and use the solidify tool to remove material. You can then hide the surface features created.

 

[dr_gallup]

You can make a label as a sheet metal part, extrude cut part or all the way through it then bend it to match the curvature of your cylinder.

 

[tobbo]

Use the offset tool. And use "offset with draft feature" to create this.


//Tobias






Edited by: tobbo

 

[kdem]

Took me a little while to figure out how you did that but its a lot better than the way I was tought to do this.

 

[tobbo]

ahh... ok, sorry

Well... first, pick the surf to offset (so that it turns pink) , then "edit-offset" and choose "offset with draft feature"


Then you create a sketch to be the area to offset. You can either go normal to the sketch or to the surf. Play around whit theoptions

On last little thing, with this feature, you cant offset/extrude a text (its greyed out?!?!? atleast in WF3) if you want to do this , then first create a sketch(with your text) and then in the "offset feature sketch"....use "use edge" (or , "create an entity from an edge " like they call it nowadays, haha)


Maybe its clearer if you look at my modelltree in my post above... sktech 1 is the "mcad" text, and offset1 is the.....offset

(with draft feature)


//Tobias
Edited by: tobbo

 

[cnachane]

i think before picking the surface to offset we need to set the filter option at the right hand bottom to 'geometry' instead of 'smart',to activate the offset option in the edit menu.Atleast that is what i do in wf2.

 

[tobbo]

if you click once at the surface, (the part becoms "red wireframe" ) then move away from the surf/part...and then back and pickthe surfaceagain... it becomes pink.


(or else you can do as cnachane described and change the smart filter...)


//Tobias






Edited by: tobbo

 

[cnachane]

Thanks Tobias!!its an addition to my knowledge.