Available in: Sketch

Wrap a surface or sketch entity around a cylinder or cone.

This feature currently only works on cylindrical or conical parts and surfaces.
  1. Select Wrap feature icon.

    Wrap feature dialog

  2. Select the Tools, which are faces or sketch regions that you are wrapping around the cylinder or cone.
  3. Select the Target (the cylinder or cone you are wrapping faces or sketch regions around).
  4. To change the position of the tools:
    • Angle - Change the degrees of tilt.
    • U shift - Move the result horizontally.
    • V shift - Move the result vertically.
  5. Select the check mark when finished.
  1. Click Solid at the top of the dialog.
  2. Adjust the settings in the Wrap dialog box to your preference.
    1. Choose whether you want to:
      • New - Create a new solid
      • Add - Add to an existing solid
      • Remove - Subtract from an existing solid
      • Intersect - Keep the intersection of two (or more) solids
    2. Choose the thickness of the solid.
    3. Select the Trim to target option to make the tools not visible when it goes beyond the borders of the target.

      Before Trim to target exampleAfter Trim to target example

    4. Select the Specify anchor points option to match one point of the tool to the target, assigning location.

      Wrap specify anchor points example

    5. If necessary or desired, select Merge scope (or Merge with all) to select parts with which to merge the new (additional) part.

  1. Select Surface at the top of the dialog if not there already.
  2. Adjust the settings in the Wrap dialog box to your preference.
    1. Select the Trim to target option to make the tools not visible when it goes beyond the borders of the target.

      Before Wrap surface trimAfter Wrap surface trim

    2. Select the Specify anchor points option to match one point of the tool to the target, assigning location.

      Wrap surface anchor example

  1. Select Split at the top of the dialog.
  2. Adjust the settings in the Wrap dialog box to your preference.
    1. Select the Specify anchor points option to match one point of the tool to the target, assigning location.

      Wrap split anchor example

See the Learning center course Introduction to Sketching (Onshape account required) for more information.