Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
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Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
I installed FreeCAD 0.19 and have watched about 20 videos online. I have been successful when following along and creating the objects that the videos described. I am getting a feel for how things work but I have a long learning curve ahead of me.
I have a quick question. I am trying to create a lid for a beverage can. The quirk is I want to put text on the inside surface of the lid. How would I approach that?
I tried creating a cylinder and then a pocket inside of the cylinder the same size as the can. That gives me 1.5 mm thick lid walls. The bottom of the pocket is 1.5 mm above the cylinder inside surface. This created a "lid" or what looks like a lid. Total height of lid is 7.0 mm.
I then placed text on the inside of the lid and tried to extrude it. This gives me an error message:
Cannot use selected object. Selected object must belong to the active body.
Consider using a ShapeBinder or a BaseFeature to reference external geometry in a body.
Apparently this is not the way to accomplish my task. I don't think using a hole in the cylinder the size of the can would work as the hole would go all the way through the cylinder.
Photo attached of what I am seeing in FreeCAD.
Pointers on how to do this?
I have a quick question. I am trying to create a lid for a beverage can. The quirk is I want to put text on the inside surface of the lid. How would I approach that?
I tried creating a cylinder and then a pocket inside of the cylinder the same size as the can. That gives me 1.5 mm thick lid walls. The bottom of the pocket is 1.5 mm above the cylinder inside surface. This created a "lid" or what looks like a lid. Total height of lid is 7.0 mm.
I then placed text on the inside of the lid and tried to extrude it. This gives me an error message:
Cannot use selected object. Selected object must belong to the active body.
Consider using a ShapeBinder or a BaseFeature to reference external geometry in a body.
Apparently this is not the way to accomplish my task. I don't think using a hole in the cylinder the size of the can would work as the hole would go all the way through the cylinder.
Photo attached of what I am seeing in FreeCAD.
Pointers on how to do this?
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Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
Hi and welcome to the forum!
I have written a tutorial on using ShapeStrings in PartDesign: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=36623.
I have written a tutorial on using ShapeStrings in PartDesign: https://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?t=36623.
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Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
Chris,
Thanks for the answer but that explanation doesn't help me. I see no way to attach the ShapeString to a surface. I think I have created the entire part incorrectly. For some reason FreeCAD apparently doesn't think the inside of the lid is a surface.
I need someone to give me an idea of how to actually create a lid. Cylinder with hole? Cylinder with pocket?
Thanks for the answer but that explanation doesn't help me. I see no way to attach the ShapeString to a surface. I think I have created the entire part incorrectly. For some reason FreeCAD apparently doesn't think the inside of the lid is a surface.
I need someone to give me an idea of how to actually create a lid. Cylinder with hole? Cylinder with pocket?
Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
Upload the file so the helpers can have a look.
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Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
I can fuse the text with the cover, but I can't stamp the text on the metal sheet
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Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
- Create the Shape String
- convert it into a Sketch (Draft_Draft2Sketch)
- create a ShapeBinder from it into your Body
- position as needed (using Edit->Placement)
- pad
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Cheers,
Markus
Markus
Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
This step breaks the parametricity (e.g. no later change of text possible), but luckily it is not needed. You can use the ShapeBinder directly with the ShapeString.
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Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
That didn't work for me when I tried it previously. FreeCAD hung with a spinning cursor when attempting the pad.
Cheers,
Markus
Markus
Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
Can you recompute my file? Can you recreate the pad?
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Re: Drink Can Lid with Text on inside surface - how?
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