Wrap Text Around a Cylinder in Fusion 360
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I discovered a little Fusion 360 hack I wanted to show. In this video I demonstrate how to wrap text around a cylinder using the new Sheet Metal environment. Enjoy!
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Straightforward, clear delivery. No music to interfere or distract. Slow enough to follow mouse movements. Interesting, useful topics expertly demonstrated. Some of the best F360 videos I've run across.
This works a *charm*. The only difference I have made is instead of an offset, I do a < 1 degree second line, and also at the end I loft from one side to the other rather then extrude , and I think that just is a tiny bit neater. Thank you, your presentation is super clear and obvious and I love it.
Thank you. Keep them coming. There are other Fusion presenters that I have a hard time following because of how they speak. You do an excellent job. Thank you.
Thanks Robert, appreciate the feedback. Will definitely keep them coming. I can't seem to run out of new ideas to try.
Ditto!!! TH-cam is great for learning but my pet hate is people who clearly don't know what they're doing and so have to correct as they go along. Most confusing for the viewer. Totally different here. Keep up the good work!
Thanks so much, I had been trying different ways to cut precise grooves around a cylindrical object for a couple of days, this way to do it was perfect.
Love this, I will use this feature to engrave a few jewelry pieces I create from now on; it is great to be able to add the Makers Mark or any message on them, very cool. I am pleased with your teaching, very clear, calm and knowledgeable. Thank you
Thank you for this. Just what I required to solve a problem. Followed your steps and it worked fine. Then went back into model and made the cylinder solid for my project. Very gratefull for your help. Now following you to see what other great tips you have....
Thank you! This is just what I needed - been looking for this "function" for a couple years! MUCH APPRECIATED!
Great tutorial, I am pretty much a beginner at Fusion360, and found this super helpful.
I made a similar model - going to print it out now!
Unfolding the ring - amazingly useful idea.
Great work , thanks for your time and effort.
Fantastic Vlad.
When I first saw the addition of the sheet metal workspace, this is what I thought of, but not had the time to try anything yet.
Now I know that it works and how to do it.
Great job.
Thanks Spike. We think alike. Looking forward to see what else I can use the sheet metal environment for.
Thanks so much, very helpful. I like how you point out the shortcuts too.
Thank you for the tutorial. I really liked how you explained each step. I followed your steps and got the same result. Great video tutorial! :)
Thanks so much for sharing this technique. It really helped me out on a project I'm working on.
Thanks for this tip, Vlad. Really like how you come up with new ways to use Fusion.
Thanks qCNC. Looking forward to see what else I can use the sheet metal environment for.
Just earned a new subscriber, thanks for saying the shortcut letters as you do everything. It's helped a ton in learning them!
Thanks for the sub!
FABULOUS! Been struggling with this concept for a while. Trying to emboss custom lampshades for mounting into sockets with protruding keys. This looks like it will fix the problem.
Dude!! Been playing around with every program I can kinda do trying to get an unfold/refold done for a project. Took me hours of trying, and 5min into your video my project was pretty much done. THANX
Happy to have helped Chris!
I just wanna say thanks for these videos. You explain things so well, and don't use the shortcuts a rookie can't understand... That so many others use.
Thanks Sean. Yes, I try not to use shortcuts for that very reason. I remember when I was first learning and short cuts drove me crazy. Plus it's a lot more helpful to see how the tools are actually organized on the menu.
What a simple and smart way to do this ! thanks so much
Great idea. I've never used sheet metal so far. Will certainly do from now on ! :-)
Saved me tons of time. I was not using text but svg files, same thing.
Thank you so much, you basically saved my design project for school!
Glad I could help!
Thank you for sharing! Very easy to follow tutorial.
Excellent solution to text wrapping, clearly explained and spoken, thanks very much.
Could I make just a small comment which is a fine tune to your solution and as a very new beginner to Fusion, I hope you don't mind. When I tried to add a fillet to both ends of the ring it failed, I then discovered the replacement 1.00mm that re-fills the gap is not a curve but straight extrusion. By accident I discovered deleting the 4 faces of the 1.00mm 'repair' the tube 'healed' itself and returned to a perfect cylinder.
Great suggestion. Thanks Alan!
A little late to the party but exactly what I was looking for to make it a perfect cylinder again. Thank you!
Thank you! Clever workaround and you really helped me with a personal project
Fantastic idea. That saves me quite some time compared to the usual trick of extruding and combining the text. Thank you very much.
Thanks. Yeah that was my approach as well prior to figuring this out.
What is that other trick? I don't see any other way to accomplish this.
Great tip! I can see using this to create art projects. Thanks for sharing.
Great tutorial! I've been struggling with this exact problem, so thank you!!
Thanks. Glad you found it helpful.
This is really useful to me, thank you very much :)
i need to emboss a torus. this is a good start; thanks!
Greatly explained. THX!
Brilliant, thanks for sharing!
very interesting and useful. thank you.
Thank you so much! Having retired from nearly 50 years in IT, I am just now taking up 3D design and printing as a hobby. Your tutorial enabled my first "from scratch" project - a custom napkin ring for my son's wedding.
I encountered an "inconsistent edge-face relationship" when I tried to extrude the text. Many attempts later, I tracked it down to the font I was trying to use. Whodathunkit?
Thanks again.
Thanks Ron and congrats to your son. Great idea with the custom napkin ring 👍
Thank you for showing us this
Thank you for posting, it worked very well
You're welcome Matt. Glad it worked out.
this video is really helpful. Thank you very much for the knowledge!!!
You're welcome. Glad it was helpful.
Awesome. Thank you 👍🏻
Thank you! This was very helpful!! :)
Thanks mate! I’ll try it out
Cool. I have been looking for something simpler for awhile now!
You are the best! Thank you so much for this!
Awesome tutorial, thanks for sharing once again!!!!
Thanks Gert!
Great little trick!
Thanks
Thank you! I have been trying to find a good way to do this! BTW, The Center Point ARC tool works a lot easier to accomplish your first 5 or so steps!
Thank you so much, you are so right about the center point arc. I couldn't trim that piece for nothing!
That is a really good design
Thanks
so good!
Very useful, thank you.
Thank you. that help me a lot.
Might be worth mentioning that text can be added to the end faces of the cylinder as well. Like the lettering on a Lifesaver candy.
thanks, very useful
Thanks for your video, your way of wrapping text works the best. I went one step further with your idea and wrapped text around a conical surface. I started the same way as you and then once I had the flat cylinder, I used press pull to make the flange thicker on the back side then in the model work space I used the draft tool to angle the face side. Then I put the text on the angled side and once folded the text followed a cone. Feel free to make a video of the process if you wish, I could not make a video as good as yours.
Nice! I'll have to try that.
Very nice presented! Calm, clear and exact! can this method be used to add text (or SVG/logos) on a solid object? In your case; a solid cylinder?
Such a nice trick!!!
Thanks!
This is most useful, thank you. I've been trying to do similar with a cone shape but not getting fully there. When refolding odd things happen. Any hopes for a tutorial to do this??
Thanks for posting this. Now, if, say, I wanted to give that cylinder a solid base (to turn it into a cup for instance), how would I do that? Just by sketching/extruding in the model workspace? Or is there a more elegant way in the sheet metal or patch workspace?
VERY NICE VIDEO YOU SHOULD MAKE MORE LIKE THIS VIDEOS
great video, thank you for taking the time to make it!
Thanks!
Thank you, clear and understandable instruction
It didnt work with the bloody new design of fusion 360 for me. How did You get it to work?
Never mind, there are apparently two different "unfold" functions, and I picked the wrong one..
Glad it worked out.
Awesome tutorial for a beginner like myself and others I'm sure.
Thanks Chuck!
Thank you Great video!
Thanks!
Great! I think this method will allow me to write text on that top face so going to try that out
Thanks
Great video!
I have a problem with something similar, but i have to wrap a 2d shape arround a 3D profile. What would be your suggestion?
Thank you!!!saved the day!!
Great video... But can you do this with an image or something else flat other than text to wrap around another object?
Wow you really make your videos that any one can follow even me I'm new at this !!!
Thanks! This is awesome. I am trying to wrap text around a sphere.. do you have any hacks on how to do that?
Very good and easy to follow. Question - Is there a way to make the flange thicker (more like a solid cylinder). I have just started playing around with it with no luck so far, thinking of maybe extruding it when in the flattened mode?
I just started learning fusion 369 and this is really helpful, I love these videos! I am coming from solidworks 2015 and my license I got has expired so to avoid that large of an expense again I found fusion and I won't go back.
Thanks Orville. You're right, you can't beat the price of F360!
Question; when you went into the Sheet Metal and created the Flange Fusion gave you the option of selecting the length of the cylinder. I noticed different materials for selection as well, but still have not found where the wall thickness can be adjusted. Or can it be adjusted?
Hi there! This is great!
I have a question. I am trying to have a repeating pattern wrap around a sculpted form that is not perfectly round. I am trying to have almost a fish scale pattern wrap around an organic cylinder. I've tried many work around with your approach by the end result isn't great. Is there no way to wrap a pattern around a sculpt?
nice - kool feature
Thank you for the Video. One Question,
how can i make the wall thicker?
Great video! I have a few uses running through my head to try out.
Great! Got a few other ideas I want to try as well.
@@DesktopMakes I tried with the voronoi add in (free) and it won't let me refold, says it looks like the sheet metal has been removed but I have not, unless the voronoi cut through it and that means it then thinks it's removed
Your system looks weird, but it's by far the best I've seen on youtube for this. Any way to do it on a more complex surface? Say, the surface of a torus rather than a cylinder, so that the surfaces of the letters are curved two ways at once. Still hard to believe the program doesn't handle this by itself.
absolute genius
Thanks! Take a look at my latest video. Fusion's new update has an Emboss feature that now allows us to have circular text without having to use this workaround: th-cam.com/video/pcgSgFYmH6s/w-d-xo.html
@@DesktopMakes Thanks, I've been trying to play around with the emboss feature all morning to get this to work, stumbled on your first video while trying to find a solution. The new tutorial makes it so much easier!
Thank you :)
Thanks for sharing...
how would you separate/delete the inner cylinder from the embossed letters, so that way the only part left is the letters? i have my extruded design thats attached to the cylinder but i only want the embossed portion. im using your video to make my flat design have a slight curve to it. i am very new to fusion 360 and 3d modeling in general
Very helpful... I'm looking to use Fusion 360 to save the NURB file into an .obj file for import into ZBRUH to use the topology tool and send it into MODO to render.
Nice. and Thanks.
Thanks for tihs - it works very well. But now, how could I make a separate component for the text so it could be printed in a different color??
brilliant!
Awesome. More helpful than the Autodesk website :P
Another excellent video! This is one of many text-related things I've tried or wanted to do in Fusion but been unable to figure out - thanks! Don't know why Fusion's text features are so limited...
Thanks markustube. I imagine in the future there will be an update to provide a more direct way of doing this but I guess in the meantime this workaround will do.
Excellent tip. Not sure what restrictions there are on the curved surface. Unfortunately, looks like a spiral can't be unwrapped, though the flange tool will create it from a spiral sketch.
Awesome! :D
Thanks!
Here's another quick question you made a circle or a disc one dimensional, and then you went and you made a line increased it to 1 mm using offset I understand all that and then you removed the connecting part of that circle that one mm peace. Then you went to the sheet metal environment to make a flange but I didn't see where you told it how thick the flange would be is there some kind of preset? It looked like it was about 1 mm thick but I didn't see where you directed that information into the software could you clarify that?
Hey thanks for the Help, I have a problem I want the text to be cut fully through but when i rebend it leaves peaces of the word behind, any tips.
Tia
Great video. I am missing something. When I go to flange command the thickness looks correct but when I exit out it goes to a thinner dimension. I think that my material preset is incorrect but not sure how to change that. It is probably in plain sight.
Thanks
You are a god!
Great tutorial. Helped me a lot. I just drew a sketch instead and duplicated round the edges. Anyway.
I really like your solution to adding text to a cylinder. I was following along, with your tutorial, but I never get a display of a menu selection to "refold" the cylinder. I've tried the tutorial a couple of times and still don't know what I might be doing wrong. I would appreciate any help you can give me.
Tks,
Gary
Great video. Could this also apply to truncated surface of cone shaped cylinder?
Hi feedup, check out the new emboss tool. There's no longer a need for this workaround. th-cam.com/video/pcgSgFYmH6s/w-d-xo.html
Great vid - noted that not all fonts seem to be accepted by Fusion. Arial no probs but Myriad Pro (our brand default) not accepted. Startup 'newbie' may also be the issue !
First off all, thank you for sharing your knowledge!
I have to make a graduated collar. I followed your tutorial and mostly everything worked so far. When it comes to wrap it again, the letters are gone. If I start an unwrap again, all the letters show...
Where could i have a mistake?
Thank you in advance for your help!
Regards
Freddie
I was like, "WTFFFFF" Real helpful tip!
Haha! Thanks!
I was wondering how to do this: Extrude text or SVG logo onto a non-plan surface. Very very useful ! Thanks
Hi, how would you do this for a decal, I,am trying to make a coke bottle but the decal keeps tilting downwards. Is there a way to fix this ?
Awesome, what about wrapping text on conical shapes ?
Legit method, thanks.