Re: Wrapping on a cylinder Solidworks?

Matthew, I MAY have a program that will help you. It does what you
want but is written for use with CNCPro and I haven't tried it with
any thing else. The tricky part is calculating the feed rate. CNCPro
may be unique, I don't know. Here is how CNCPro works. If a block
contains an X (and/or Z) and an A it ignores the A and uses in/min
for the feed rate to move the X distance, and simply commands the A
to move at whatever rate it takes to get there at the same time,
(this is disastrous with say a small X and a large A). If the block
is an A only move, then it assumes that the feed is in deg/min and
that slows it to a crawl. Therefore my program has to calculate a new
federate for each block based on this rather strange criteria (and of
course the radius).
It's a small file, but I think you need to have VB6 on your machine
to run it.
You might contact me off list,
Al Lenz

"mjf462001" <mjf46@j...> wrote:

> SolidWorks has let me down :(
> Does anyone know of a program that will accurately wrap an image or
> drawing around a cylinder?
>
> TIA
> Matthew