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Project to surface not working

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 12:48:11 GMT

Greetings!

I've been struggling with project to surface for days now.

I've followed this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUk3sHRYjQM to the letter and still get errors.

Regardless of what I project (text, shapes etc) I get the following error which google search turns up no results for.

Error: Failed to project the selected geometries. Please check that the selected geometries and faces are sensible, or try changing project type.

This happens regardless of the shape/text I'm projecting and the surface Im projecting onto (cylinder, sphere, box, etc,)

Re: Project to surface not working

HughesTooling — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 13:42:39 GMT

It looks like the problem is using the window selection you are selecting points as well as curves, for some reason this gives an error with Along Vector. Try selecting the curves one at a time, or change your selection filters so only curves are selectable.

Mark

Edit, try this setting for your filters.

Re: Project to surface not working

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 15:54:22 GMT

Thanks for the quick response!

I still get the same error.

Below is a screenshot showing the offset plane with the text to be projected.

I get the same error whether I'm using closest point or along a vector.

Re: Project to surface not working

HughesTooling — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:17:33 GMT

Can you attach the full size image please, or better still can you export the part as an f3d file and attach to this thread.

Mark

Re: Project to surface not working

HughesTooling — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:26:13 GMT

I don't think you can select text, you'll need to explode to curves first.

After exploding project works.

Mark

Re: Project to surface not working

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 16:56:55 GMT

Thanks for the help. Now to just figure out how to turn that bunch of Purple lines into an embossed Logo.....

Re: Project to surface not working

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:34:55 GMT

For what it's worth, I found this method to be much more helpful for debossing/embossing on simple curved surface. .

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WEdbBTQ0qaw

I was able to make this in about 5 minutes without pulling my hair out.

Re: Project to surface not working

HughesTooling — Mon, 11 Jul 2016 17:38:11 GMT

Rather than project try extruding the text as a new body the use the extruded text to split the face. No need to explode the test first.

After splitting you'll have something like this.

Then use Press Pull to extrude, you might need to do one or two letters at time as it can take a while with more.

Mark