Fusion 360 - CAM Engrave on Dome Surface - Ask LarsLive

[@Fauncebrothers]

I will not be beaten! very funny. Keep up the good work!

[@InfiniteCraftsman]

I would kill for a video on adding text to a multi curved surface. I saw one that used the sheet metal tool to create each curve and projected through eat one. Basically, wrap text evenly on the top half edge of a donut. 🍩 the video I watched was a little over my head, would love your voice on the subject!

[@markwebster8489]

Hi, Lars.....Good video. What is the benefit of using trace rather than the 3Dmachine “profile” operation??

[@joetke]

Pretty good pedagogy Lars. Thank you! Instructive as helpful.

[@StephenBoyd21]

Hi Lars. I can’t work out why you needed to do the surface thing? Why couldn’t you simple roll back the timeline and use the body to generate the spiral. Why did you need the surface?

[@cadcamstuff]

You are right! You could! Back in my shop days my preference was to pull surfaces from the model for CAM and machine to those. This way, when the customer call 6 months later, you have the surfaces as a reminder what you did. If you just drag the timeline you might not remember or worse, if you have to replace the model with a new revision with a different built timeline you could be lost.

[@petepayne4177]

Good info as always!