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Text or a Logo can
be Extruded or Cut-Extruded onto many types of surfaces, flat,
cylindrical spherical, or compound with various methods. Logo’s
should be converted to sketch entities or brought into a sketch
from an Adobe Illustrator file.
On a flat surface, select the face and insert
a sketch, draw a line or arc to control the placement of the
text and set it for construction. With the line selected,
use Tools, sketch entities and select text. In the property
manager, Type in the text you want to use in the text box,
select the orientation, font, size and justification to the
line. Next Select the extrude feature and set the dimension
for the distance you want to extrude the text, then select
the green check mark to complete the feature.
To
modify text for an extruded cut, some text font types
can require modification to extrude cut into surfaces properly.
To modify the text, right mouse button select on the text
and pick “Dissolve sketch text”
Next,
add and/or trim sketch entities from the text to allow them
to be cut extruded through, In the example below the text
is trimmed through the “R and D” to allow the
inside of the R and D to remain when the material is cut away.
Then select the cut-extrude feature and select the sketch
entities or contours to be cut away set the direction, depth
dimension or “through all” and select the green
check mark to complete the feature.
On
a cylindrical surface, insert a sketch on a plane
and draw a line or arc to control the placement of the text
and set it for construction. With the line selected, use Tools,
sketch entities and select text. In the property manager,
Type in the text you want to use in the text box, select the
orientation, font, size and justification to the line. Select
the Wrap tool from Insert, features, wrap. Select the cylindrical
surface and set the radio button to Emboss, or Deboss, depending
on whether you want the text extruded or cut on the surface,
respectively. Set the depth dimension and check the green
check mark to complete the feature.
On
a spherical or compound surface, open a sketch a
reasonable distance above the surface you want to extrude
text on to and draw a line or arc to control the placement
of the text and set it for construction. With the line selected,
use Tools, sketch entities and select text. In the property
manager, Type in the text you want to use in the text box,
select the orientation, font, size and justification to the
line.
Next select the extrude feature and in the “From”
box Select “Surface/face/plane”, Then pick the
surface you want to extrude from and in the “Direction”
box select blind and then put in a dimension from the surface
you want to use. Make sure the direction arrow is point in
the correct direction and then select the green check mark
to complete the feature.
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