Embossing With an Image in Wildfire 5.0

[ptc-4539176]

I am a college student and am currently using Pro/Engineer Wildfire 5.0, I have had a few courses in Pro/E but dont know many of the advanced functions of Pro/E. Anyways, I was wondering if there was a way to take an image file of a logo and use that image to emboss the logo on to the part creating indentation of the logo on the part.

Thanks for the help!

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[TomD.inPDX · Accepted solution]

I'm afraid that is not "the way" of Pro/E. But you do have two options: you can use the image as an underlay for a sketch so you can make an extrude feature, or with a few imaging tricks, you could make an image texture that would look like it was embossed when you do a rendering.

If you can get a DXF file (vector format file) of the logo that you can import, life gets much easier. A vector file can be converted to a sketch with relative ease.

[ptc-4539176]

Ok, so if I i get a DXF file how do Import that, create the sketch, and place it on my part?

[TomD.inPDX]

I don't have WF5 so I cannot answer this directly. However, in Creo 2.0, when you select File>Open of a DXF file, it asks if you want to open it in sketcher or as a drawing. If you open it as a sketch, you can save it as a .sec file. Once you are in the part you want to use this sketch in, you can activate a sketch on the surface of the feature you want to emboss, and you can "get data" to import the sketch you saved earlier.

There are likely a few other ways, but that is all I can think of at the moment.

[Constantin]

Hi Clark,
this may not be possible in 'real 3D', in rendering however this is possible.
There you can use an black and white image wich is -using a bump map- then translated to surface offset information. This is only visual though and will not effect the model itself...

[TomD.inPDX]

Nice Constantin! Yes, a bump map was the second option I was leaning towards. The bump map is often overlooked as a rendering feature. It adds a lot of life and texture to a rendering.

[JonathanHodgson]

Can't comment on the exact commands as we're still in WF4, but you can import the .dxf into your model (you'll probably need to create a coordinate system to position it correctly, as there's no option to move or offset the import feature) and you can then just select it as a curve feature and Extrude it, IIRC.