Fusion 360 help please.

[Anguz]

how can i put text or emboss text onto a curved surface?
similar layout to the sizes on a socket set

 

[ajlelectronics]

how can i put text or emboss text onto a curved surface?
similar layout to the sizes on a socket set

Bearing in mind that I am no expert, I think it is done by offsetting a plane, writing your text there and projecting it. However I am sure that someone who actually knows will be along in a moment to tell me I have got it wrong.

Use the Create > Emboss command by working through the steps here: How to emboss/deboss on curved surface in Fusion which leads to:

https://www.autodesk.com/support/technical/article/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-emboss-deboss-on-curved-surface-in-Fusion-360.html

 

[Newlands]

how can i put text or emboss text onto a curved surface?
similar layout to the sizes on a socket set

I did a post in thread 'Bambu sale' with a few screen shots that might help:
https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/bambu-sale.137661/post-2528897

 

[Misterg]

how can i put text or emboss text onto a curved surface?

Create a sketch with the text in it on any flat plane that puts it in line with where you want it to be on the surface. (It can be inside or outside the surface, but is a bit more predictable if it is outside the surface), then use the 'Emboss' command (under the 'Create' menu).

So create a new plane for the text if you don't have a suitable one already (offset or tangent, as here):

Create a sketch on that plane with the text that you want:

Select the 'Emboss' command (under the 'Create' menu):

Select the text as the sketch profile and the curved face as the 'Faces' and whether you want and embossed or de-bossed effect:

Bingo:

I think the ability to emboss onto curved faces is a fairly recent addition to Fusion, so there are a few videos, etc. floating around that offer work-arounds that are no longer applicable.

Edit: Same as @Newlands (posts crossed).

 

[Newlands]

Create a sketch..

Snap!

 

[ajlelectronics]

My next conundrum is editing a sketched rectangle to reduce in size equidistantly. All I can do currently is to pull in one side, the parallel side remaining where it is.

The goal is to match the front panel rear cover to the front panel extrusion, with the cutouts all removed.

 

[Erie Fred]

My next conundrum is editing a sketched rectangle to reduce in size equidistantly. All I can do currently is to pull in one side, the parallel side remaining where it is.

The goal is to match the front panel rear cover to the front panel extrusion, with the cutouts all removed.

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Can you show us the sketch dimensions ?

 

[Dr.Al]

Does Fusion sketcher have an "Offset" command? In most CAD packages that will draw lines at a fixed distance from existing lines.

 

[Hood]

Does Fusion sketcher have an "Offset" command. In most CAD packages that will draw lines at a fixed distance from existing lines.

Yes it does, single or double offset.

 

[Hood]

My next conundrum is editing a sketched rectangle to reduce in size equidistantly. All I can do currently is to pull in one side, the parallel side remaining where it is.

The goal is to match the front panel rear cover to the front panel extrusion, with the cutouts all removed.

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Can you not just edit the sketch then delete what you have then use the project to get the shape/dimensions of the extrusion then extrude that?

 

[sako243]

I don't know if I can trust it. As pointed out, the datasheet is dreadful and real life measurements cannot (here) be made accurate enough. It's a .step file supplied by the display manufacturer and merged with my PCB design from EasyEDA Pro. I think I will have to go with my gut and get the boards made once finished. Worst case, the connections will just become flying leads.

Print them out on paper.

All Brother printers have the option of calibration prints (printing out a grid, measuring and feedback that into the driver). Not paper can stretch differently.

I do this for any PCB and mechanical stuff, a very useful sanity check and the human eye/brain is very good at aligning concentric circles. Hence why most precision target shooting is all with round sights and round targets.

 

[ajlelectronics]

Can you not just edit the sketch then delete what you have then use the project to get the shape/dimensions of the extrusion then extrude that?

That's a thought. Currently distracted on "pretties"
Database of 3d component models, like LEDs

 

[Johnnybravo]

Not sure about fusion, but if you want to take it up another level,and put lettering on a cone,things change. I had some engraving to do on a plastic injection moulding tool, and it was very dependant on what order you did things.Software was Mastercam. First off was to mirror the text so it was readable once the part was molded. Next was to incline the letters to the same angle as the cone. And lastly was to wrap it around the entity. Simple when you know how, but was on my own on that and took a couple of days frustration to figure it out

 

[ajlelectronics]

I have inserted some components now to move around for a good appearance. The Fusion file is now too big for the forum!

 

[Misterg]

Not sure about fusion, but if you want to take it up another level,and put lettering on a cone,things change

Out of curiosity, I just tried it, and the 'Emboss' command in F360 also works on a cone:

I didn't know that

 

[Johnnybravo]

Out of curiosity, I just tried it, and the 'Emboss' command in F360 also works on a cone:

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I didn't know that

Yes but it’s not parallel with the base of the cone, that was the issue I had, as the design was such that the lettering had to be parallel to the cones base.

So try inclining your text to the same angle as the cone, and then wrap it around.

 

[Anguz]

The emboss did what i needed...
Another pointless hour or 2 drawing and printing... someone sells these but I am a tightwad

 

[Misterg]

the design was such that the lettering had to be parallel to the cones base.

Inclining the plane for the text doesn't seem to make any difference, but putting the text on a curve brings it parallel to the base of the cone (making the radius of the text the same as the radius of the cone where the text will be placed seems to work without digging too far into the maths):*

I know the sort of hoops you had to jump through, as F360 was similar until they released this emboss command - if you tried it before, you would just have got a projection of the text on the curved surface (so the shapes of the letters became more and more distorted as the curvature increased).

[Edit]* I actually set the text radius equal to the cone diameter by accident and that worked. It is a 30 degree cone, so the best text radius might be something like cone radius / sin(cone angle). I haven't investigated further!

 

[iNf]

The emboss did what i needed...
Another pointless hour or 2 drawing and printing... someone sells these but I am a tightwad
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No need to pay (nor draw )
https://www.printables.com/model/1134545-socketman-10mm-with-articulated-legs

 

[Anguz]

Didn't find that one.... enjoyed learning making my own