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The Emboss command severly limited?

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griff701
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The Emboss command severly limited?

Hi,

 

In Solidworks I can emboss a sketch into a 'wavy' surface without difficulty.

 

03-10-2013 15-53-26.jpg

 

 

 

If I try to do the same thing with Inventors 'Emboss' command It fails with "Only planar, cylindrical or conical faces are supported."

 

03-10-2013 16-02-10.jpg

 

 

Surely there must be a way to acheive the same effect as in the first illustration, in Inventor ? Am I missing something obvious?

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Message 2 of 13
CCarreiras
in reply to: griff701

Hi!

 

Sure you can, disable the "wrap to face" option.

 

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Note: "wrap to face" will only work with cylindrical or conical surfaces.

 

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Message 3 of 13
Cadmanto
in reply to: griff701

Welcome to the forum.

I have nevered used the "Emboss" , but it seems to me like you could create a surface offset from the wavey surface into the part.  Then creating your sketch on the plane hovering over the part project a cut feature down to that surface and this should accomplish what you are looking for.

 

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JDMather
in reply to: griff701

A recent discussion on the SolidWorks forum

http://forum.solidworks.com/  (well I went searching for the thread and couldn't find it quickly, but in the last two weeks)

reveals that the SolidWorks tool lacks some very basic functionality too.

 

But that aside, and since this is the Inventor forum, there are two basic work-arounds.

1. (as suggested) Offset a surface and the Extrude Cut to the surface.

2. Split the Face and Thicken/Offset cut.

 

You might make some suggestions here (I would really like to be able to wrap to a sphere (in SolidWorks or Inventor).

 

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Inventor-IdeaStation/idb-p/v1232


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Message 5 of 13
griff701
in reply to: CCarreiras

Thank you Carlos, thats exactly what I was looking for  - I've spent two days trying to figure that out, and it never occured to me to not check 'wrap to face'.

 

Thanks again 🙂

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JDMather
in reply to: griff701

I thought your design intent was to wrap to face.  Smiley Mad

I guess I should have seen that as SolidWorks is limited to wrapping to cylinders or cones as well.


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griff701
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Thanks Cadmanto 🙂

 

The offset plane with the sketch would be as it appears in the second illustration in the original post ?

 

Cutting down from this sketch doesn't give a uniform depth of cut into the solid. It cuts more into the high points, and less into the low ones - unless I'm missing an option to enable that sort of cut. (Very possible - I'm very new to Inventor)

Message 8 of 13
JDMather
in reply to: griff701

You missed the step suggested of offseting the surface (body) to Extrude to.

 

Works the same in SolidWorks.


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griff701
in reply to: JDMather

Thanks JD. 🙂

 

I wasn't meaning to imply one package was better in any way than another - its just that using SW seemed the easiest way to illustrate what I was trying to do.

 

Splitting the body and then offsetting a sketch is another idea that never occured to me, but seems like a great suggestion.

 

Thank you

Message 10 of 13
JDMather
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@griff701 wrote:

Splitting the body and then offsetting a sketch is another idea that never occured to me, but seems like a great suggestion.


Not "splitting the body", splitting the face.
Not "offsetting the sketch", Thicken/Offset-Cut the face (I have to check if SolidWorks will do this the same way).

 

Here is an Example of #1 in SolidWorks (works the same in Inventor).  I will try to find an Example #2 in both programs.

 

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Message 11 of 13
griff701
in reply to: JDMather

Got it !

 

Thats great, thank you very much 🙂

 

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Message 12 of 13
JDMather
in reply to: griff701

Here is an example of Splitting a face of the part and then Thicken-Cut that face.

 

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Cadmanto
in reply to: griff701

It looks like you have figures this out.

What I was talking about (and I used to do this in Solidworks as well) was a plane above the part.  Not going through it.

Then with the offset surface which follows the same curvature as the outside surface wave, would give you your cut depth.  I hope this makes sense.

 

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