FANTASTIC video on this, Angus! I recorded one on Emboss last week and have it set to release tomorrow. That said, your video is amazing and I went back and filmed an extra bit for my video to make sure to tell people about yours. Thank you for this!
Your videos have taught me so much, first I got an Anycubic Kossel Plus and started selling prints... Now I've just gotten and Ender 3 Pro and I love it. Thank you so much for inspiring me to get into print-on-demand and 3D printing in general.
You are definitely !!!! the easy-st person to watch on RU-vid when it comes to tech tuition. You always get the info across with clarity. Many thanks for your vids and will continue to watch MM. And yes i agree Emboss is great.
I love the new Emboss tool, been messing with it ever since it landed. I understand they are working on other stuff, including text along a path. Very exciting.
Hey Angus, Fusion 360 just released text on curve/circle/spline (two days ago from this post), definitely related to this. Looks like you have a new video to make. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to cry in my beer as all the workaround parts I've designed have to be updated.
This is really exciting! It's going to make some projects much more doable for me. Being able to wrap, say, an SVG pattern around a curved object opens up some cool possibilities. Appreciate the video!
Another good video Angus, thanks. I've been playing with the Emboss tool to create knurls (another basic tool sadly lacking from Fusion 360). The old approach of creating a small detail and patterning it hundreds of times is too computationally intensive for such a small detail. I hoped that the Emboss tool would mean a shorter coffee break while it recomputed after an edit, but nope, still a long delay. I did discover that a really long string of text could be spiralled up a cylinder for many rotations by giving Emboss a small angle. Try it with a string of diamond characters (use any Unicode font in Character Map -> Search "diamond"). It's an easy way to create a sort-of-knurled surface.
lars christensen has a video on a workaround for knurled surfaces that might be helpful to you. I believe it's a livestream and he uses CAM techniques to produce the knurled surface which was relatively computationally-light compared to the pattern method
You could use the emboss tool to make text go all around that curved surface ring, you'd have to actually first make the ring's surface flat, emboss text on it making it pretty "long", extrude and join the curved surface over the flat one, and cut away from the embossed text an offset body with the same curvature as the the ring's surface!
On the circular pattern you don't have to select the axis, you can select a round surface (like the outer surface of the cylinder) or a round edge (like the upper edge of the cylinder).
this is exactly what I needed for a project, watched half way and tried it on a sphere, after much swearing I watched the rest of your vid where you explained its not possible on a sphere..........
i found a way to emboss onto a curved face like at 8:34 but its a bit finicky. you gotta emboss it by just a little bit onto a cylinder of the same diameter of the widest part of your curve, use a sketch to square off all the faces of the letters/shapes, and extrude them individually to your curved face.
In your bot fight video you said FDM printed PLA is not a good choice or is unreliable for high stress applications. What filament would you recommend for high impact and opposing high speed rotational forces?
Can you add text along a curve on a sketch? Say for example you wanted to add "Makers Muse" around the circular face at the top of that cone, then extrude it upwards.
Hey I’ve been struggling with this for awhile. But how do you get the symbols to show up on the bottom later. Because on my Ender 3 I only get smooth bottoms?
how can i emboss the .shx fonts in fusion 360? i want to machine a text by using the single lines of the font so the diameter of the endmill i will use will be the width of the text.
Nice Fusion 360 tip! I’ve used “Sheet Metal” on a curved line, unfolded the “metal”, added text, and then refolded. That seems to remain undistorted as well. But this is way easier! Thank you!
Yeah, I used it several times since I saw that tutorial on RU-vid and though it is quite tedious the result is perfect, way better than the "workarounds" that Angus mentioned. Wonder if he didn't know about it.
This is a method I used once in the past after find a youtube tutorial, but had complete forgotten how to do it. This is much simpler. Can you unfold a sphere? to do the other cases..
About the ring with the arced surface: what if you punch your text from the back throughout the ring, and then close that surface again? You'll get an debossed text with different depth from the outside surface, but it would still work, correct?
Workaround, make cylinder inside a sphere/torus/etc and emboss on that and combine it with the first part, and if you want the text to "curve" with the surface then make a slightly bigger spare/part and intersect that with the original part that has the text sticking out, now the text would have the same curve....
No. You can not cut something that is not there. You could cut into an other temporary body and then do some boolean operations to get the result. The result would not be perfect as the created emboss would not follow the curve to have uniform distance.
Did you need to add supports for the Embossed letters? I saw you had 2mm, which would make 2mm overhangs with 90 degree angle. Or am I missing something?
I see a painting roll ‼️. make a roll from from semiflex material..with an axel in center. Another roll adds paint continously..... an then you can roll your favourite WORDS all over the place 😁. (Of course letters must be mirrored then)
I see you close the z axis of the origin for your circular pattern. While this it totally fine, did you know you can also use any of the circular hedge or face on your object as an axis? Great video! That last Fusion update rocks!
@@hpekristiansen 123D was an older early cad software by Autodesk. They discontinued it cause money/it gave too much away for free. As for what I mean I mean literally moving the sketch over say 50mm to the right.
Angus, couldn't agree with you more about the addition of the Emboss Tool. I came from Inventor and the "Emboss Tool" was sorely missed after moving to Fusion. Typically, the error you mention at 2:38, about the profiles failing, are most likely related to the chosen font. If you go into your sketch, right click on the text, and "Explode Text" you will most likely be able to find the culprit which caused the failed profile error. I find that it's most often where the profile of the text doubles back on itself, loops around itself, or appears "funky" in some form or another. If you don't plan on having to move your text again, you could trim up the "funky" bits and voila...the extrude can now be calculated.
Angus, a question. I have a mesh that I've pulled in - in this case, the famous print-in-place planetary gear. I want to put a single large raised letter across the gears. My idea is that the letter comes apart, then together as the gears turn. However, there's not a single face. Ideas?
With the double-curved surfaces that don't work did you find a workaround? seems like you might be able to do the feature on the a flat-curved surface with, over extrude the emboss feature, then cut the outside off with an offset from the double curved surface. Wow, thats hard to explain with text...
Nice video as always Angus :) Any idea how we can create the embossed text as a separate body so it can be printed in a different colour, using a multi colour printer it would be so cool to make the text pop with a different colour but can't see that feature available..TIA
There is a way but it's somewhat of a hack... What I do is make a copy of the shape to be embossed, then after embossing you can use "combine" and "cut" with "keep tools" ticked to retain the original and results in a copy of the embossed detail you can then export for printing :) Wish you could just emboss as a separate body!
Great addition to fusion! Anyone know how to automatically turn the debossed/embossed part into a new body? For example, to colour it in a different colour while rendering, etc.
In your limitations example, can't you use the emboss tool to first have a profile on the inner ring and then extrude cut that through the ring? In that way, it will only distort in the Z direction, since the circular form is kept by the emboss?
@@MakersMuse I tried but I can't get it working, the embossing does not create a profile to use for the extrude cut through the rest of the ring. Also, since the circle is on the inside, the text would be mirrored.
just tried this! thanks angus! however there is NO drafting capability for the embossing or debossing of the letters - i'm very disapointed! as a casting channel i'd love to make easy sand casting moulds but yet again fusion makes that final step of drafting angles SUPER painful! great video o/
This is not working for me. When I select the text sketch and then the curved surface nothing happens. I don't get the other options and the OK button is greyed out. Can you help?
I usually fix this by going into illustrator, right click on the path and select "reverse path direction". If the letter also has cutouts they will also need to be reversed
HELP!: when doing this operation, the text embosses BACKWARDS and reads in a backwards orientation. I cannot for the life of me figure out how to flip the text. There is an option in the emboss UI called "Flip Normal" and this does NOT correct the issue. Can someone please explain what I am doing wrong?
Hi, My Fusion give the error "Error: Sketch profiles create a self-intersecting body. Adjust depth of emboss or size of sketch profile.". Can you help me please?
I just been using the default windows 3d builder when I needed to emboss text does it at nice angles just make a model throw it in hit emboss choose a font and emboss or tweak the settings. For a free tool that comes with windows it does it pretty good but it nice to see fusion 360 has emboss text now.
I directly started Fusion and tried but.. no luck. So I looked you full movie but you don't give any hint about which version this works from and how to get it... nothing. Then I looked in my Autodesk account for Fusion Update - nope. ?? Your video is like a dream...
Shame I won't be using this any time soon because of the new free plan limitations being imposed by AutoDesk. CAD Transforms plugin for Blender's looking mighty fine right now, if not FreeCAD, and I can use both on my open-source system instance.
Hey guys. Is there anyway of doing this but with images on a non uniform surface? So I have a sculpted surface that's not uniform, and I want to put a logo onto it. But I've run into problems. Like the logo is skewed. I can get it to work on more uniform surfaces, like cylinder and cine, but not my sculpted surface. The surface I want to do this to is a human leg shape. Thanks guys
Great video Angus Emboss tool doesn't work on a curved surface made from a curved drawing, BUT if you get a flat drawing like the broach and do a fillet on the flat surface to make it dome like, you can then emboss it. I just learnt it today. Havagooday Greg
A question about embossing the curved surface. Are you able to select the internal flat surface but then make the depth go past beyond the outer curve (does that make sense?)? Kind of like extruding out from the internal surface through to the outer curved surface. Is this again, impossible or would this end up in a distorted image? Or am I just talking nonsense (lol). I'm not a maker myself, but this kind of creative thinking intrigues me.
I used to export and use tinkercad to add curves text. Sadly my 3D printer is not operational, but I love making prints a little special by adding text. It seems to work o concave surfaces too, but what about flat curves horizontally?
Embossing on an arced or other complex surface is possible. The more complex the surface, the more work it will take. Basically, use a dummy (tool) flat/cylinder surface to encapsulate the arced one, emboss onto that, cut away the tool surface, offset the base of the remaining emboss into the arced surface, finally use an offset from arced surface and keep the intersect. If you want to deboss instead, just use an intersect when you offset the base of the remaining emboss.
hi Angus i am jugal ,i am doing stufff that spin and make sound by spinning example spinning stick by figure and making sound can you suggest some idea how mechanism will work and make sound
@09:20 Haven't tried it myself yet but I can already see how you COULD do it with a little extra work on your part by using a compatible placeholder shape to get an almost distortion free base and then using it in another step to boolean the curved shape.
It will be interesting to see how RU-vid's decision to stop email notifications effects your stats Dana! It's really annoying not to be notified..... 😠 People are just going to forget channels, not be bothered to go hunting.
