Wrapping text to an object

[Anonymous]

I'm attempting to wrap text to a ring (yes, its a LOTR thing) but I cant get it to wrap the way I want to. I understand you can only wrap an emboss to a flat surface but, after that, I'd like to "cut" the emboss out of the  curved surface on top of it like you can do with an extrude. Is there a way to do that?

[salariua]

Welcome to the forum.

Attach your attempt here and we will look at it.

[WHolzwarth]

It can be done, but there's some manual work behind.

IMO, a big problem with your font.

2015 file attached

Walter

[Anonymous]

Thank you for taking a look, the file is posted below. I'm not trying to make the letters stand out from the curved surface I'm tryint to cut into it.

[WHolzwarth]

Seems to be a font that's not installed on every PC.

[Anonymous]

No its acutally Tengwar font created for Lord of the Rings, you have to install a driver for it. But the font shouldnt matter if its doable correct?

[JDMather]

Emboss -Wrap the text before the second Revolution.

You can wrap a cylinder or cone.

[Anonymous]

I deleted the curved face but kept the work plane "on" it to try and force the creation of negavtive space on the emboss but I kept getting this error

[mcgyvr]

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@Anonymous wrote:

I deleted the curved face but kept the work plane "on" it to try and force the creation of negavtive space on the emboss but I kept getting this error

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So your negative space "experiment" didn't work..

Do it as JDs part shows..

[WHolzwarth]

No equal emboss depth, Jeffrey. Looks ok  with low curvature, but ..

[Anonymous]

I see what you did, if I understand correctly: you set the whole thing as a revolution, ebmossed the text on it deep enough so that when you did a cut revolution to create the cure the text would still be there

[mcgyvr]

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@WHolzwarth wrote:

No equal emboss depth, Jeffrey. Looks ok  with low curvature, but ..

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I'm sure he is aware of that... But how perfect does a 3d printed "nerd" ring need to be my precious 

[WHolzwarth]

Well, I wouldn't need it at all.

Amen.

[JDMather]

This example is slightly different with uniform depth.

In my defense - I knew the first example was not uniform depth, but one of those pesky students walked into my office and expected me to do my real job. 

[Anonymous]

I'm trying to mimic what you've done in your file on my file but it keeps giving me the cannot create error message

[JDMather]

Are you attempting with a simple text first?

Is you text string Pi*D minus a tiny fudge factor (cannot self-intersect).

BTW: Have you installed all Service Packs and Updates for your version of Inventor?

[Anonymous]

I've made sure the string was short enought to fit the circumfrace, it fits when I do a positive emboss with the Tengwar font, but I cant seem to make the negative one work

[WHolzwarth]

We can discuss about theory, and we can discuss about what's enough for real life.

Making it short, here are the differences between my above Text on ring.ipt and Jeffrey's last part:

- On my part edges are pointing perpendicular to the surface

- On Jeffrey's part edges are pointing perpendicular to the main axis

Can be an aspect for engraving, but surely doesn't matter in 3D printing.

IMO, I should stop here. 

[Anonymous]

I've updated everything as far as I know.

I tried to solve the problem by putting the 4 sections of the text in the 4 cardinal directions because, by subbing my text for the plain text, I was able to get one line on the ring without a dimension error popping up. I dont seem able to recreate that was done on the by Mr. JD when he managed that one emboss on that one face