Help with Molded Fonts

Hello,

I just created a model of a forged part. I need to add fonts .19 high
raised .015 on a couple of surfaces.

Can someone help me with this?

Thank you.

 

offset the surfaces the height of the font required ( I am assuming
these are non planar surfaces) and then extrude the font. Next,
insert, cut, with surface.

Ken M

 

to add to my previous comment before some corrects me, you may need to
trim the surfaces together to make one surface to cut with. you will
need to do this if the text crosses over surfaces where the font goes
from the height of .019 to .015 or whatever your distance needed is.
Ken M

 

Are they flat surfaces? If so, put a sketch on the surface. Go to
Tools/Sketch Entities/Text. Input the text, pick the right font and size.
Extrude with appropriate draft.

If the surfaces are curved, then I think you can use the Wrap function
(Insert/Feature/Wrap). The draft would be added afterwards with parting line
draft.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

Thanks to both of you for your help.

But, Jerry's steps worked great.

 

Also, don't forget that you can now make good use of the new "From"
dialog box in extrude in that you no longer have to extrude starting
from the sketch. This is great for embossed (raised) letters on
complex surfaces. In otherwords, before this feature, you needed to
extrude the text from the back side of the complex face, a certain
offset from the front side of the face and then do a "post" cut
feature (usually using a copy of the interior face) to cut away the
unnecessary material. Now, no matter where your text 2d sketch lies,
you can specify the start and end conditions of your extruded text,
i.e. interior face, offset exterior face.

Closing the Gap between SW and ProE!

Regards

SolidWorks

 

But I don't want the gap closed! I want SW to stay away from ProE. I want SW
to be so much more intuitive, robust and capable than ProE that no one in
their right mind would even think of dealing with PTC.

I'm really glad to hear that you are working for SW now. I'm sure that users
will see real improvements due to your influence. I'm afraid that my
co-workers and I will be using CATIA or UGS before that happens, though,
since SW is giving us such headaches now.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"