Need to 'wrap' profile around irregular surface.

[Daniel M]

Is this possible in mastercam (see pic)? This is a sheetmetal forming problem. The profile is a tool tab that locates the blank on the hydro press die.

 

Project doesn't work since, well, its not a projection :-).

 

Can someone recommend another app that does this?

 

Thanks!

 

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[FP1]

Did you try xform/roll?

[FP1]

oops, didn't see the "irregular surface".

[Dan@home]

Xform project..

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

mAKE FROM SURFACE FLAT SURFACE

uSE FLATTENSURFACE.DLL

pUT CURV ON IT AND TRIM SURFACE TO CURVE

uSE MAP.DLL TO TRANSFER IT ON TARGET SURFACE

RTFM

USE HELP FOR THE C-HOOKS

CURVE TYPE FOR TRANSFER -SURFACE CURVE

[Toonz]

Try Xform Project. I did sometihng very similar recently. It works great. I did have to first project the flat elements to a standard plane before they would project to the surface.

[Teh Bear without Brains kinda idiot]

I used it lots of times using map.dll.

Earned lots of money with flattening surfaces

and projecting curves on shapes.

Used it with MC8 and MC9

Worked nicely.I even checked it today on X4 .

Works smoothly .

What`s a deal ?

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For lazy ones

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Map C-Hook

Use this C-Hook to map a surface curve from one surface to another. It creates the new curve by copying the u, v coordinates from the selected surface curve to the new surface curve, and connects it to a new parent surface. You can optionally choose to swap the U and V coordinates. The shape of the new surface curve is a function of the U,V coordinates of the selected surface curve and the shape of the new parent surface. Generally, this results in the surface curve "morphing" from the first surface to the second surface.

 

This C-Hook is often used together with the surface flattening C-Hook (Flatsrf) to map curves from the flat to the original surface. You might also consider using the ConsToSpline C-Hook to convert the surface curves into splines.

 

After starting the C-Hook, you are prompted to select the surface with the surface curves. Select the surface, not the individual curves, and press [Enter]. Then, select the surface or surfaces to map to. You can select several surfaces to create more than one set of curves. Press [Enter] when you have finished selecting the surfaces.

 

Mastercam then displays the Map C-Hook dialog box. Select from options that let you swap the U/V coordinates and create points along the mapped curve. Click OK to create the curve and close the dialog box. Or, click Apply to create the curve and leave the dialog box open so you can select other curves. Use the Select button to select the new curves.

 

 

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[Daniel M]

Thanks Bear.