7 answers

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  Sudhir Gill about 1 year ago

  The generic method for all software. Extrude it as a surface and then create intersection curve.

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  Manolis Theofilos about 1 year ago

  Emboss would be my thought but you said it will not work. The thing is that in version 2012 emboss works in spheres.

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  William about 1 year ago

  If emboss is not working extrude the eyes into the sphere and the do a revolve cut around the sphere to cut of the excess to the eyes....

  I think this kind of model would be better done with surface modelling
  :)

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  Pranav Panchal about 1 year ago

  From the uploaded screenshot of the file, I think, you might be good by doing it with the extrude feature....... since you only have to do the eyes on a revolved surface.................... extruding the eyes from the surface would give results almost similar to wrapping the sketch around the surface.......... I don't know if you have seen my angry birds models(Angry Birds (RED))........ I have used the extrude method......

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  James VerDuin about 1 year ago

  You may want to try to a 3D sketch with splines tangent to the sphere and then extrude the closed loop. This is a difficult way of doing what you want. Another easier way would be to create a sketch plane at the angle you want the eye back on the head and then revolve an eye sphere that intersects the head so only a portion of it is seen protruding from the head. Once you've achieved the proper location of the eye, then mirror it to the other side. I hope this was helpful.

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  James VerDuin about 1 year ago

  Check these out for what you want!

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  James VerDuin about 1 year ago

  Sorry! forgot that Inventor can't go backwards. Try the Step File here.

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