Applying metallic logo onto curved surface

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to figure out a way to apply a metallic logo onto a curved glass surface. For the logo, I imported the SVG and extruded it by .01" so I could apply gold material to it, but getting it to conform to the curves of the glass is frustrating. It's a twisted polygonal shape.

Instead, now I'm trying to convert my structure to sheet metal (as posted recently in "Pattern around a curved surface" and in this thread, "Converting Surfaces to Sheet Metal"  ) to make a pattern, but I'm not having any luck so far. My form isn't cylindrical but a twisted polygon column. When I try to convert the faces to sheet metal I get the error "Unable to calculate body thickness. Make sure the input body is valid for sheet metal". Is there a way I can make a new sheet metal object from the original sketch? Is there a better way?

Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!

[TheCADWhisperer]

File>Export and then Attach your *.f3d file here.

[Anonymous]

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[wmhazzard · Accepted solution]

I could not get the sheet metal to work, apparently Fusion does not recognize twisted sheet metal as having a bend so it won't unfold.  What I did was project a sketch from your letters then modify the O to cut off the top and bottom projections. I then used the sketch to split the face of the jar which was tedious, I forgot that the insides of the letters need to be cut before the outside otherwise the cut won't work. Once the face was cut I could offset the faces of the letters. Here is a file. 

[TrippyLighting]

Is this what you are looking for ?

Your workflow is messy at best. You use unconstrained sketches an it is easy to accidentally destroy the design.

[Anonymous]

Yes, that's exactly it. Thanks for letting me know about the unconstrained sketches. I'm new to 3d modeling, and I'm still learning my way around fusion.

[Anonymous]

Thank you! I'm glad there's a way to do it without using sheet metal. I'm new to fusion so it helps a lot.

[TrippyLighting · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous the solution @wmhazzard provided is indeed a intel tedious.

Instead of projecting sketches onto surfaces in many cases working with surfaces is actually a better choice. In this case it makes for a fairly quick workflow.

[wmhazzard]

 TrippyLighting I did try surfaces but my problem was that I started with a projected sketch which was problematic with the surfaces and I abandoned the surfaces instead of abandoning the sketch. Your way is much better. 

[Anonymous]

Thank you @TrippyLighting! I've been trying to learn about projections, but have been finding them rather confusing. I needed to adjust the logo and and this method made it easy.