In this text ring jewelry CAD tutorial mini series number two, I'm going to show
you two things, number one, how to design a script text that is suitable for metal
casting. Number two how to flow the design into a ring bang.
Let's get started!
To work with this kind of style, you will need to find a text font is really flows.
So let's take a look on what I have. Let's go to the top view, I'm sorry front
view, and then we want to make a ring shank that said the radius for 8, which
is 16 millimeters in diameter. Then we can go type the command "length" and that
will tell us is 50.265 (mm), so I'm going to make 55.265, enter, so
the length over here is equal the circumference okay. So let's go to the
top view, and let's go to the text. The font that I am using is a Edwardian Script ITC that's
the font that I download, and make sure it's bold. Keep in mind that we want to
have curve instead of solid. We don't want to group it you can change the
space if you want to. but I only have two letters, that doesn't matter. so
that's click okay, so now we have this one. The reason we want to do the curve
is because we need to edit. You can see that the curve is kind of fall into
itself, and if you create extruded solid from here, then you will
have a problem with it. so let me go ahead and delete some of the points so
that way they will be a continue one single line. The same thing happened
right here, so let me go ahead to delete this one as well. Once we delete it, we want
to see if this any part is overlapping. As you can see some of these
end is coming into the body itself. so what we like to do is
I would like to explode this one, and have that maybe draw a curve like this.
and using this curve to trim this one and this one. Okay so that way we don't have
you know... this is connected, and then next things I wanted to do is I want to pick
up the control point on the both (lines) and move it inside of it and then you can
kind of tweak it a little bit if you feel like that is too stiff, but you can
or you can make it thicker or something like that. and then we want to go ahead and
use that to trim everything else so now is a closed curve, let's go ahead to join
this guy here we also need to enlarge the look at specific on those point.
Sometime those point well cause the problem. Usually what I like to do is
make them a little bit rounder, so that's one of the way to delete the control
point, or you can kind of give it a fillet there. Alright so we want to go ahead
to join the other one there. Alright so creating the thickness of the border, I'm
going to do is to pick up my curve, and then I'm going to the curve tool then
you have this one it's called "offset" Depends on how fat that you want them to
be here is setting up for 0.4. I'm just gonna type in 0.5 and
giving a little bit more surface there. Okay and also at the same time, I kinda
need to re-orient the area that I want. Maybe I want them to touching a little
bit better, so at this one I'm going to offset as well the same distance, so I get
something like that. So let me kind of move them a little bit. Kind of find a
best position for them. If that look good to you,that's great. Than we gonna
stay with it. At the same time we want to compare the
entire text and how much does it takes for the rest of the ring shank, so that
means my ring shank might be a little bit too short, so I'm gonna scale it down
just a little bit so you kind of need to look at the proportion, and see which one
worked the best. Okay so now we have this. I'm going to
have this one and this one as our border. If we really like that, then I'm going to
trim this guy over here, so then there will become one single line that's go
ahead to join them. Okay so this is our border. This is inside of where it's
going to cut it out. I also will like to suggest to give a little bit radius even
like really small like 0.1 there to somewhere like this spot, because you
try to keep all the sharp corner away, so you can avoid a lot of casting issues, so
if anything is I too sharp over there, you kind of want to giving a little bit
radius there. It will not affect the look of the text, but it will giving you much
better casting result, and trust me the little things like this, it may not look
like a lot of difference, but it does, you know, giving a lot of benefit for casting
Alright so you can go ahead and spend more time to make it nice and round and
as you can see. It doesn't show too much from the on the overall effect on the
text. Alright, so first things I would like to do is
the outer edges. So let's take a look on the perspective. In the perspective, I
would like to have this one going up like two millimeter for example. It's
pretty thick band, but it is a ring band I actually want to make sure
they are sturdy and solid. So let's go ahead and extrude it up for 2mm.
Okay so now I have this, I'm going to have all the interior that I have
there that I'm going to cut it out so we'll be the outer text of this guy,
and this guy, they are going to be cutting inside, so
I'm going to have it extruded surface, go to the solid-extruded planer curve-
straight, and I want them to go one mini- meter. Alright so it's a sitting inside
of it but that's moving those two part. so this extrusion and this extrusion.
that's going to move it up one more millimeter then we're gonna use the
bowling difference, we are going to boolean different this outer one out of this
inside one. So you kind of see what happened over there. Okay so now what we
need to do. I think this one inside need to be extruded, because you need to be
cut out as well, so let's go ahead to extruded this straight for one
millimeter, and then again we want to move in this up with the Gumball for one
millimeter, then again we want a boolean difference this out of this one, okay so
now they look like something there. We are missing some part in the middle
which is this part and this part so that's go ahead to solid- extrude planner
-straight, and then we want to do us two millimeter. Alright so now we have
the center part is done. Let's go ahead to boolean all of them. okay now to do
the ring shank, it's coming together on the bottom, and it's kind of cross really
nice on the half of the shank. What we need to do is
we need to make sure the beginning and the end is combine together really well.
so what I like to do is I'm going to use the line from the midpoint and snapping
into the endpoint, and I do want to have about 1.5 millimeter on each
side, so I'm gonna do the same thing here and 1.5 mm on each
side there. Okay so what I mean is this point right there will connect to that
point. That means if we have those two points with the same profile supposedly
they should meet it really well together. Alright so let's take a look. I'm going
to do something really simple. Let's go with the rectangle, and we want to
snapping into the endpoint, but let's take a look on the right. I'm going to
type it 1.5 times 1.5, so that give me a square over there, and then let's just go
ahead to copy this one from the endpoint to this endpoint, the same way from end
point to this endpoint, so that kind of give us an idea when they coming
together. We kind of flow it back, It should touch where on the bottom, okay
That's the idea. Now we need to know how we are going to flow this guy, so I'm
gonna go to the top view, and then we are going to snapping into... go back
here. I'm going to snapping into the endpoint. Okay and then you can be
creative for what you like to do with this
but I'm going to do something like this here. Okay and the other one, I'm going to
go and then like this, and they will cross and you will end it anywhere in
between here. okay don't worry about it snapping into somewhere because it will
be, and we will flatten it back to the construction plane just in a
minute. So let's go ahead to do this one coming cross coming here and it's gonna
end somewhere here. And we're gonna have a
very last one. It's gonna go again to the end point, and then that's going here
and then we're gonna end this somewhere here, okay and again we need to
make sure that the line is very straight, so you can see now at the front view,
they are not on the construction plane so let's go ahead to pick up this one,
this one, this one, and this one, and on the top view, we want to use the comments
called "project" to C plane, and we want to delete the original one, because we
no longer need that. Okay so now I have something like this, okay the next
step that we are going to do is I gonna pick up this square, and actually you can
have it to any type of the cross-section, but I'm happen just use a square because
it's easy for you to see, so I'm just gonna copy that one to the end point
here, to the end point here, and also very last one end point right there.
Okay so with this one I want to make sure that when they're coming here, it's
not like having a little bit sticking out. So I'm going to rotate this guy so
that was like fitting into inside really well, and then we're gonna have something
like this, and let's go ahead to moving that part as well over there. and then
this part over here. Maybe it's coming a little bit too much, so kind of hiding
there, so it's easier for me to do the boolean. alright so now we have this
Let's do a test. We can also do is turn on a Record History, and let's go to
surface- sweep one. This is the rail, this is cross section, and the other one is
right there. cross section and then make sure that they are all align, facing the same
direction for the arrow. Then we have the first one is done now
let's do the second one again, record the history, we go from recorded history and
then we'll go to the surface- sweep one, and this is the rail this is the
cross-section and this is the cross-section, and then we have the
second one go this way okay. Now let's go to the third one and doing the same
thing so I'm going to fast forward here a little bit so you won't feel like...
now we have this we just need to make sure that is what we want. So I'm
going to move the center part aligned with one of this on the bottom, so that
way I can see if the form coming out to the text or something like that.
now since we have a record history and if we don't like the position right
there, we can just move it to somewhere else, so it's easier for you to edit
later on okay so now I'm going to cap all this guy so they become solid. It
will tell you that you break the history. That's okay, because we no longer need to
change it and then let's go ahead to boolean unit to the center as well so
now we have this system and we are ready to flow it back to the ring.
Make sure one thing is... let's take a look on the front view, make sure that
the line that we have you need to be aligned to the bottom of the text and
that's set it up to the zero, okay. so let's take a look on that. Everything
look good. Let's turn on the perspective, alright so the very final step is we're
gonna go to a transform- we're gonna go flow a long curve, and
we're gonna pick up the object and then pick up the base curve, and they all come
in here to pick up the curve on the ring so now you see it's coming like that, and
the reason they come in like that is because the that's where the seam is. I'm
just gonna simply just turn it like this. Alright so you can kind of see we have
this ring, and I have a very beautiful flow text, and it's coming to the boolean
together. I hope you enjoy the video. This is our mini-series number two. there are
two more coming up. Stay tuned. Please like
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you for watching. I will see you next Monday.