mill / engraving along curve.

Hi people,

does anyone know the best way to create a potrusion that has to
represent a milled (engraved) area?

Creating a sweep around a bounding curve is a lot of work, since there
are many letters, and i't a circular placed text.

an extrude is insufficient.

anyone any ideas?

tia,
µ

 

There is a text option in sketcher, and I think you can import fonts. If
it's only as a representation I find that's usually good enough

 

Ooops, I forgot to say, create letters individually, normal to a skeleton of
curves fanning out from the centre of the object

 

Goodmorning,

What I meant to sat us that i wanted to mill with a certain profile,
along a curve. you know? when u have a vonical mill, tou need a sweep,
and define the outer boundaries etc.. with a traight mill, you can
extrude, etc... but is'nt there a way that it doesn't matter what
profile my mill has. I'm using pro/e for a few years, and the only
thing I ever saw that came remotely close to that was by a custom
toolkit

Regards,
µ

PS.: thanks for going to the trouble of sending me the email!

 

I don't know whom I am answering here, but I haven't seen a discussion that
would more benefit from pictures. Even a very literate discussion of solids
and surfaces is lacking, well, what, say solidity and perspective? But if I
understand what is being asked, the answer is curves projected from a plane
onto a surface. This can be used as a trajectory for milling and as a
boundary for an area offset, from which you can make raised or engraved
letters.

Are we getting close? Mutrax, was the graphic file I sent any help?

David Janes

 

Maybe I missed the discussion of what didn't work, but the way I'd do it is
to sweep a curve profile that matched the profile of the cutter you'll be
using. I thought the discussion was about how to create the curve profile.
And how to create it on any shape of surface. That's what I've written
about.

David Janes