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

Reply to
mutrax
Loading thread data ...

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

Reply to
John Wade

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

Reply to
John Wade

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!

Reply to
mutrax

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

Reply to
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

Reply to
David Janes

PolyTech Forum website is not affiliated with any of the manufacturers or service providers discussed here. All logos and trade names are the property of their respective owners.