Pick up curved wall as reference plane

[Anonymous]

Hello!

I am trying place a model text on a curved wall but i am unable to set curved wall face as a reference plane. I have even tried placing a curved grid and set reference plane by name but i found no solution.  Please help me a steps.

Set in work plane - pick up a plane- wall face

Thanks in advance!

[ennujozlagam]

@Anonymous hello, you can refer to this previous thread HERE or HERE. thanks

[L.Maas]

Workplanes are just planes not curved. Also model text does not flow along a curved face.

A possible solution is to create a face based family with an instance parameter and then place instance on the wall, each letter is one instance

[ToanDN]

Draw several reference planes tangential to the curved wall and use them to host the model text.

[Anonymous]

I've had to solve the same problem...

Your best bet is to trim the model text with a void that'll cut the front and back of the text with a concentric curved surface. 

Place text on flat vertical plane (Near chord of Curved surface. 

Set depth of text to be excessive

Created a vertical void extrusion with work plane set to a nearby horizontal plane 

I like to use one void but you can do it with two. 

The profile of the extrusion(s) will have one line coincide with the wall surface, then a second line offset the desired depth of the letters. 

Hope this helps.