Hi Burr,

Hm, I'll have to try it out, but hard to say. I'd have to extrude the the line down the cylinder, then round the edges. Also, the label isn't a perfect rectangle (it's wider near the bottom) My brain's too tired atm to figure it all out, but it'll probably be easier to just extrude and deform it in another modeling program.

Hi Tree, also another possible way to get something pretty close to what you want might be to create a flat curve like this:



Then to project it straight on to the surface using Construct > Curve > Project:



This seems to be close to the kind of shape you are looking for? :



- Michael

Hi Tree,
Yeah, The blend tool will round off the corners nicely before I trim the surface of the cylinder with the wrapped curve. If the bottom is a different size, I would just have to do a second curve for the bottom length, then loft between them. Then I can extract the edges of the loft and trim the cylinder surface with the new edges and use the trimmed piece to create the label. Can offset it out and shell it if you want to give it thickness.




[EDIT] Looks like Michael has provided the answer [EDIT]

Hi Burr, I think your method is more accurate, the one I showed there is probably not 100% exactly the right size but it could be a quick way to get something that looks close.

- Michael

Hi Burr, Michael,

Both ideas seem good. But, as you mentioned Michael, I think Burr's way might be a bit more accurate. I'll try to give it a try sometime today, depending on my workload. I have a bit of time to get this project done, so I wasn't pressured to find a quick solution myself.

Many thanks to both of you for the quick and great ideas.

Hi,

Try www.cncwrapper.com

That may do what you want ...