Creating raised letters

[Guest]

I have a job coming soon that was originally a casting, we are going to make it out of a solid piece of aluminum. I may need to create the rasied letters, like those on the casting. I have engraved but never had to raise them up.

 

Any suggestions on the best way to accomplish this?

[Quickmike]

We've had to do the same thing here a couple of times. We had our cad department do it in solidworks. It came out real nice. I'll see if I can post the sw file on the ftp so you can have the tree.

[Guest]

Duh, Solidworks, LOL, why didn't I think of that

[Quickmike]

I put it in unspecified uploads. Its called datestamp {Jan}. Let me know if it helps. He said go into sketch then extrude.

[crazy^millman]

Well John there is a coule way to accomplish this. Is it going to be a curved surface? I have done this ia couple ways. I will figure our the amount of circumference the lettering will need to cover. I then make that my line length for the lttering to be on. I will then roll those letters and then place them on the surface I need them on. You can then do a couple things from that point. Draft the surfaces then trim to curve making them all at the height yo want. Then create a surface at the cylinder the height on the letters create then trim that surface to the letter and know have a full rasied surface of letter in your model. The other thing is just use that as boundary when doing a toolpath most time I will do a pocket a little bigger than the surface and then do a project to the surface if not to much curvature to that surface.

 

Now if it can be done multi axis that is real easy. Now you just do a 5 axis curve and use the lettering as the chanins offset from there the tool radius and you can get the desired effect.

 

I have also done this in solids but really depends on alot of factors. I was going to do coaster for a company I worked at years ago on the 5 axis router out of delrin. The lettering was wrapped around the cylinder and have the company logo and name. This was all done in Mastercam. I will look on the FTP I think it is still up there.

 

I think Crazy Raised.mc9, CrazyText.mc9, and CrazyRoll_Numbers.mc9 might help you out. they are in the MC9 folder on the FTP.

 

HTH

[Guest]

Ron,

 

Thanks, I'm lucky in that these will be raised off of a flat surface.

 

I was thinking, among 10,000 other things how I could raise them up but doing it in SW is the best answer.

 

Machining them shouldn't be a problem

[Bruce Gibson]

What about translating your "text" geo up whatever height you need, then creating flat boundry surfaces? or solid extrude.

[TKDBB]

Drop me your e-mail and I can send you a file with all the letters and numbers as raised surface models. You can scale and translate them as needed.

 

Mike