In this text ring jewelry CAD tutorial miniseries number 4, I'm going to show
you two things. Number 1, discuss the limitation on the text thickness, width, and
the height for 3d printing. Second, I'm going to talk about the text layout and
how to flow it back to the ring band. Let's get started.
alright our last one
for the text ring tutorial mini series, we would like to talk about this ring band
has a lot of text on it and a lot of time this is not too difficult at all
on the model, and which I also use a lot of this command in the past, but what is
interesting and you need to take in precaution is when you want to print
this, so that's dissect this a little bit. if we take a look on the profile, you're
going to see there's a lot of gap in between, and with those gap sometimes the
gap is too small something like this. that might cause the problem, since
this is tapered a little bit, as you can see if we kind of moving in a little bit
it tapered out a little bit, what's gonna cause the problem is the gap is too
small and and the text itself is too tall. then you might run into the problem
so I would like to give you some numbers here to help you on your model, so let's
talk about the first things we need to be caution here. Number one, the text
distance in between each other that you may want to keep it at least 0.4
millimeters, which means that distance between those two spot right here in
between the text here, it should be 0.4 millimeter to be safe. With the
same number that go into number two is the text itself. The width is minimum
0.4 millimeter as well for having the better printing quality, which is
over there, there should be 0.4 millimeters. Number three the
Height of the text. you don't want to get it more than 0.6 millimeters. If you have
something is already really minimal, and you don't want it to be really
uncomfortable, when you wear this text ring. Number four, we wanted to have the
radius all over around the edges which is going to be easier for our casting. To
build this model from scratch, we want to starting from the ring shank for radius
8 or diameter for 16, and then we want to go to the right view and
build a profile. I intended to have two row of the text, and each of the text is
about 4 millimeter so I will need to have at least 10 millimeter width on
these surface that are going to be built, so let me snapping into the quadrant
over there on the top, and then, I want to have 5mm on each side, so I'm
typing five here, so that is an interior area for me, and then, I'm going to open
my gridsnap and I'm going to snapping into the grip roughly about something
like this. Depends on how tall and how thick that you wanted to have on your piece.
Now I have this. All I need to do is move it back to the quadrant from the
midpoint. So let's take a look on
the perspective view. This is my perspective view, before I'm making this
ring I would like to given the radius ahead of the time, so what we can do is I
want to give a big radius right there. roughly about one then you will see this
is nice comfort fit ring shank on the inside of the ring shank, and then I want
to give a little bit small radius. Maybe point three here so we want to do
something like this, and again right here. and the same things on the other side as
well. Let's go to "surface- sweep one", and rail cross-section, and we will get
this ring here. Now with this ring, we noticed that the here is the light to be
a little bit darker, that's where the seam is, which is good on the top so
easier for us to manipulate it now. what we wanted to do is we need to create a
UV curve, so let's go to the curve, curve from the objects, and then you have a
create UV curve. Now we want to pick up this surface, not this one, this one right
there. alright so this is the surface that we
are going to add it. now you can put in any text right here. You just kind of
need to work on the length of it so I'm going to use the text with the text box.
that you have here. I want it to be five millimeter tall and I want it to be
solid. The thickness since we don't want to have a wall more than 0.6
millimeter but we do want to able to intersect, so I want to set it up at one
millimeter, and I'm going to use the font is "Aril Round" and try to make it bold
and let's type it
and then once we type the text that we want to click ok and we want to put it
right there. I kind of need to moving a little bit there.
Now if the distant in-between is kind of too big for you. You might want to go
back one step and when you try to use this you can actually add the spacing if
the spacing it was too big, and you want to decrease the space. Let's use a
-0.2 and you can see that they are getting a little bit closer now.
you can have the style which is having the text is actually stick together, or
something like this and that may become quite interesting on the aesthetic. so
you can kind of play with something like this that will work as well. Alright, I
will leave the "I" like this things it's just there's a metal behind it so you
don't have to worry about our little Texas coming out like that, so I kind of
go in too fast forward, and then and quickly edit this part or you won't
feel too bored
before you do anything further, make sure the things we were discussing earlier about
the distance between the text and also the high of the text and the thickness
of of the text. Apply those strategy into it will ensure you have a better 3D
printing process, but this is a demonstration, I'm just gonna use like
this to show you what's the next step, and we are going to cap this so it will
be surface right there, and then let's take a look on the perspective so make
sure that my text is sitting exactly on the surface, so make sure they are
looking front view, they are not right. so I'm going to pick up all my text and
also the surface that I have, and I'm going to use the align tool, align to the
button type in 0 so it was snapping into the Z construction, so that way they are
hundred-percent touch there now we need to do is to flow it back to the ring so
let's take a look on this. My line is intentionally look darker, because I
adjusted so it's easier for you to see on the video. Yours may not be so dark
like this. okay so let's going to the transform, and you have flow along the
surface, and I'm going to pick up all my text right there but not my curve, and my
surface, and then once you done, you hit ENTER then you pick up one of the corner
and then you pick up the target corner, so once it flows, and you can see it is
exactly the distance that we have from L to the edge, and then you have something
like this. Alright so if this is what you wanted to do, and this is what you like.
You can go ahead and boolean it and you should be done with this ring. On top of
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