SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Chapter 6: Getting More from Your Sketches

I can’t imagine a situation in which I would use this myself or recommend anyone else use it. In all

cases, including idealized demonstration images or those in which traced images would be of the

most benefit to the user, such as logos with complex curvature, I believe it would be faster and

more accurate to do the tracing manually, even it means using splines.

Using Sketch Text

Sketch text uses TrueType fonts to create text inside a SolidWorks sketch. This means that any

TrueType font that you have can be converted to text in solid geometry; this includes Wingdings

and symbol fonts. Keep in mind that some characters in certain fonts do not convert cleanly into

SolidWorks sketches. Sketch text still has to follow the rules for sketching and creating features

such as closed contours, as well as not mixing open and closed contours.

You can make sketch text follow a sketch curve; to space it evenly along the curve, you can control

character width and spacing, as well as overall size, by specifying points or actual dimensions.

Sketch text can also be justified right, left, centered, and evenly, as well as reversed, rotated, and

flipped upside down. Figure 6.12 shows the Sketch Text PropertyManager and some examples of

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FIGURE 6.12

Examples of sketch text

Overlapping characters