Wrap Text in Fusion 360 using Emboss (FINALLY!!!)
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- Опубліковано 11 лип 2024
- The new emboss tool in Fusion 360 makes wrapping text and sketch geometry in 3D easy - give it a try!
In this video I'll show you how I used it to quickly make a custom lens cover for my streaming camera, as well as some alternative methods you can try if the emboss tool doesn't achieve what you're looking for.
This video is part of the CAD for Newbies tutorial series - • CAD For Newbies
Timestamps:
Intro 0:00
Extrude Example 1:11
Split Face and Offset Example 3:01
Emboss Example 3:55
Emboss on a Cone 4:48
Fully Wrap an Object 6:15
Emboss Limitations 8:02
Lens Cover Example 9:52
Conclusion 12:00
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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!
as most.. but it was stupid considering how ez this could be done otherwise.. Finally they got it done..
Yeah, I used it several times since I saw that tutorial on UA-cam 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..
@@markjacksonpulver3546 No, sheet metal can only be folded in one direction at a time I think. So it would have the same limitations.
Omg I have been waiting for this function. Soo dumb that it wasn’t added earlier.
Hah i reckon... was one of the biggest pain points coming from SW.
Hey man! Any new videos coming? I loved your gear videos.
@@MakersMuse from sw for 3D. 2D part misses a lot of features
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!
Freaking finally. Now if only they implemented texts along a path.
They're working on it and better text placement as well.
Text on path is in the 2020 roadmap
Blender
This will legitimately change how I design objects, thanks for making a video on it!
I don't think I even would have found it without this video!
You are definitely !!!! the easy-st person to watch on UA-cam 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.
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.
Oooo, Great video Angus, love the embossed text. Looks awesome. Already have a print idea for this, thanks for sharing.
Great tutorial Angus! This is a feature I've been wanting for a long time. It's going to be SUPER USEFUL! =D
Thank you! This is my fourth tutorial video I've watched on this and yours is the best!!
Thanks! Hope it helped.
Thanks, Angus. Just tried Emboss. It works it at any angle. You can emboss text along the length of a pipe. You can even make text spiral. Yes, it's long overdue, but it's been a long time since any feature added to any software has got me so excited.
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.
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!
Excellent video mate! Straight to the point in all things necessary. Thank you!!
Finally. This was so frustrating when I first learned 360. It didn't occur to me at first that it couldn't handle text embossing.
Wow, this is far and away the feature I've wanted from fusion most! Finally!
Well, getting later into the video and it's still not all the way there, is it
Oh finally! Thanks for bringing this to my attention :D
Yes! This will be so useful for so many projects.
So epic! I’ve already taken advantage of it by a ton and it’s so useful!!
Oh AT LAST!
Thank you for doing the video because otherwise I wouldn't have come across this for months!
I just bought a CraftBot Flow Idex. I absolutely love it.
I can't wait to see your review.
The emboss feature is indeed a really good thing in 3D Modeling software!👍
Good video 👍
Exciting! Can't wait to start using it.
It is exciting 😀
This is what i need! Thank you Angus! You're my inspiration!
yeaahh! i'm super excited about this! i'll finally be able to make proper curved airplane ribs like the ones from 3dlabprint =D
I just bought a 3d printer! cant wait to start printing and looking at some more of your tutorials
This just saved me so much headache, ty as always for the great content :)
Great work as always. Thanks and keep up the great work.
Really glad I only just started using this tool :) That would have driven me nuts !
Super useful tutorial as always!
Yay! CAD for noobies is back! 🤗
The Fusion gods have blessed us with another great tool 🙏
Great tutorial and info dump. So glad to see this is available. Going to make projects a lot easier (looking at you maker coins).
Awesome video.
Thanks for sharing. Did it to your tutorial.
Keep on living your dreams.
I solved my tasks.Thank you so much!!
THANK YOU. Oh, this will make things so much easier
This will be so helpful for textile projects!
Great tutorial!
This is a very welcome feature 👍
Great vid! You display the feature well. I'm now waiting for Fusion to allow for emboss/deboss on surfaces that are curved in two directions
Very cool! Thank you
Yes a fusion video!!
thank you for the excellent tutorial!
Thanks for adding another tool to my fusion 360 tool box.
Exciting!
It's about frigin' time! Wooo!
YES YES YESSSSSS! (havent even seen the video yet, but I've been missing this feature since.. forever :D
Nice. Didn't notice they added that. Thanks for the video! Something you might find useful:try using a cylinder as your axis for revolve tool.
WOOHOO!!!
Thanks for the heads up.
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
Wow finallyyy i didnt know they added that
Thanks for the vid Angus, I've been waiting for this tool in Fusion for years. Text in Fusion does still suck though. Whenever I need text/logo elements, I always do them in Illustrator first and then export/import a DXF or SVG into Fusion.
Awesome vid
Thx for the heads up.
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....
Exactly what I was expecting Angus to do when he showed that part.
I was new to fusion 360 and I literally just hours ago using the metal sheet flange function to wrap text on a cylindrical face (works by unfolding the metal sheet into flat surface to place your text onto, refolding it once done) following a youtube tutorial. Would definitely trying out the emboss method the next time.
I have found that you can use the "rotation angle" of X degrees in the emboss tool to wrap the text around the object multiple times just as long as you don't intersect with the text. So the text is in a corkscrew readable text. Start at the top of the object and read the text as you rotate the object around. You do have to play with the degree of the angle to get it right, but it is not difficult. Works pretty good.
Good video, Fusion has slowly listened.
I had so many hacks and workarounds for this. YAAAAAAAY!
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.
thank you autodesk. so good. cheers Angus
Awesome thanks
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.
Great video, thanks! Just what i was looking for :)
actually for a simple, consistent shape like the ring you showed it would be really easy to get it working as well. just emboss on the inner flat surface, move the letters outwards until they stick out (or create a new surface to do that) and then offset the originals ring surface and cut off the letters. at least in theory this should work, maybe someone whos looking for this can test it out.
Awesome. It looks like the Crafton tech is like Octopi but without the extra steps. That could come in handy
On the curved surface (like that ring) you could emboss/deboss on the flat inside with enough offset so that it protrudes on the outside. You would get letters that are "higher" towards the edge. Then offset the outside arc of the ring and make a new revolve that cuts off the letters to conform to the ring. It would be fine with no distortion :)
Finally indeed!
I'm fairly sure that what you call cold, is warm to me! :)
I tried my hand at a pencil cup (well, usb cable cup now) with a hexagonal pattern punched out. I ended up using the sheet metal workflow in order to do it (unroll, punch out, roll back up). This is one of those "why is this not a thing?" features for the longest time, so this will be nice. Shame that it won't work on a spherical surface, but I can live with just cylinder and cone.
Ooooooh, hell yeah!
YAY!!!
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
I always used the sheet metal tool to put features on bent objects (with the fold unfold function)
I will have a look into that new feature
If I ever have a child, he shall be named Amp Etex !
Hi!
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.
Good call, more exotic text usually fails completely... I hope their revamp fixes a lot of the issues.
Since that circular pattern doesn't seem to mind overlapping, you could pretty easily do a knurling pattern around an object. Make a V that stretches from the top to the bottom, emboss that, and then do the circular pattern with that embossed V. Put your number super-high, and they'll end up getting really close to each other, giving you a knurling pattern.
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.
Thanks for the video! I was wondering if there is any way to do the emboss on existing STL imports. If emboss isn't an option, is there a work around?
Amazing! I've wasted so much time trying to replicate this
Fucking finally! I've been waiting for this. I was forced to use Blender just to add wrap text after finishing the model.
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)
Neat idea!
Whole Fusion has so many great features some of the VERY simple things like moving a sketch seems to be such a convoluted process compared to 123D.
I do not know 123D. What do you mean by moving a sketch? In the browser? In the timeline? Define new plane? All of these are super easy in Fusion.
@@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.
Thanks Angus! The emboss tool would have made my last project way easier. I had to use several tangwnt planes to get text to emboss around a cylinder. 🙄
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?
Yeah, that's a workaround that'd be fairly close.
@@MakersMuse You could then split the the text with an offset arc surface and end up with a pretty spot on workaround.
3hr too late...
I was going to also make a comment like this. Now to figure out how to emboss with this.
@@AnOliviaShapedGremlin I tried that but it only subtracts out of the larger cylinder not the inner.
Thank you, great Video! is it possible to add a texture picture with emboss tool to project it to a surface in form of light and dark for more and less deeper structures?
I definitely should be using Fusion, but I still just can't get used to the workflow. So for anything complex I use Rhino.
I've recently designed a guidescope* and as a cosmetic touch wrapped the whole thing in a debossed hexagon pattern.
It takes forever to print due to the increased surface area, but it looks very nice👌
At least on this occasion, I was doing something that wouldn't have been easy in Fusion :)
*A smaller camera equipped telescope, that sits on your larger 'scope, to make sure it's being kept exactly on target. Very useful in the long exposure photographs needed to capture the dim light from distant galaxies and nebula :)
You can work around to emboss on a surface that is a revolved curve, but it's a 3 stage process. First emboss on a revolved flat but make the embossing deeper than you need. Then revolve the curve you wanted around and join it. Then offset that curve and revolve it to remove the top of the embossed text. A bit of a work around but the results look good.
Awesome! I've been in need of that feature for a while now, but it is not nice in FreeCAD. Was considering to switch to fusion for a while and now I have a reason to do that :)
Hey @Maker's Muse, in the limitations example, is it possible to do a temporary cylindrical shell around the ring, then do the emboss with the text on it to get the text in a round shape and then use the other methods on the faces of the new embossed text to get the text around the ring?
You could create a cylinder slightly larger than your curved ring, emboss that and then use it as a cutter to cut the outside of the curve. There seem to be plenty of ways of using this feature to create tools to affect objects.
Great video, i have been playing with this for a week or so now and its awesome, there is only one thing i cant work out and wondered if you can help.
I have a cylinder which I can deboss some text and 3d print without a problem, but i want to be able to print the debossed letters in a different coloured filament and glue them into the printed cylinder. oh for a dual extruder rig but finances wont allow.
Any ideas?
Great video, thank you. Do you have any tips for printing the 2mm embossed feature?
for printing I'd keep it closer to 1mm to avoid sagging :)
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!
Thank you Angus! I have not, however figured out how to emboss onto the surface of a solid cylinder (or other solid rotated form). Amy ideas?
Could you deemboss, on the inside cylinder and push out through the curved face?
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.
Nice, I really like craftbot printers
Every time I see another fusion tutorial on a 3D printing enthusiasts UA-cam, it makes me cry a little, not in a joyful way, but in that kinda sad way, there are like 3d printers opensoruce CAD software programs, that could really use this kind of content, my favorite is free cad, there's tons of off shoots of the main freecad, adding serious versatility, the best part is everything you make in it, is yours, its not stored in a cloud, needs 10 min to be exported, or has some restrictions to it. Honestly, like we support the printers being opensoruced, and the slicer software, lets show some love to the other parts than can be opensourced. May it bring us as much joy in tinkering as our prints do (and frustration).
ABOUT DAMN TIME. I am so tired of sheet metal nonsense on what should be a 1-step process.
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).