- (Narrator) The wrap command will take a 2D flat sketch
and then it'll actually wrap that around a 3D solid.
So right over here, you can see we've got this cylinder
and I'm going to create a sketch directly in front of it.
So right over here, we've got the right plane.
Let's go ahead
and create a reference plane a little ways off.
So I'm going to flip this around on this side, over here.
So we're slightly off that face.
Now click okay. Let's go ahead and start a sketch,
and here's my sketch and let's spin it around
so we're looking at the other side of that.
So we want to be looking at this face here. All right.
Now let's go ahead and create some text.
So my text I'd like to create is just something simple
like hello.
And let's flip the direction.
Let's go in that direction there and use the document font
make that units a little bit bigger.
So let's make it one inch tall
and let's click kind of over here.
So I'm just going to place that right about there,
click okay, and now I have a sketch. Okay.
So now what I want to do is I'm going to take that 2D
flat sketch and I want to wrap that
around this shape over here.
So to do that, come up here to features.
We got to get out of the sketch itself.
So we're out of the sketch.
Here's our sketch.
Here's the wrap command
right up here at the top. Click on that.
And here's our sketch, it's already selected here.
The face that I want to wrap it around is going to
be this one right here and notice exactly what happens
here is it takes that and it kind of wraps it around.
Now it's asking me, well, how much do I want to cut in?
What's my thickness, right?
So 0.1 looks good
and we have a few different options, right?
We can emboss, we can deboss as well,
as we can just put a scribe surface
of just kind of like a sketch on that surface.
But in this case here, we want to use the emboss one.
Click okay and right there, you can see
that we are able to take that and actually wrap it around.
And now you've got a 3D hello
attached to the outside of your part.
Now, if you wanted to actually cut it in, we could of course
go back over here and switch our mode
from emboss to deboss and that's going to be cutting it
in the same amount, right over here, this 0.1.
Click okay. And now we've cut in there.
So this is very different from
if you just took a regular sketch and extruded it
into the surface, because this is a round surface, right?
So in the center it would be deeper on the sides.
It'd be shallower and it wouldn't
actually follow the surface
but using this wrap command, it does extrude into the shape
the exact same amount for every one of those letters.
So it's a really powerful tool inside of Solidworks.
So definitely check it out.