SilkScreen Text

Can a NG contributor point me to guidance that tells how to easily add
a text layer to a ProE drawing to place text for silk screening of the
assembly?

Ideally being able to select the text font, size, and, if at all
possible, kerning.

TIA

Rip

 

: Can a NG contributor point me to guidance that tells how to easily add
: a text layer to a ProE drawing to place text for silk screening of the
: assembly?
:
Not sure what you mean by a 'text layer', but Pro/e does very little with common
text formats (doc, html, xml), preferring it's own, proprietary formatting, in
which, the text is generally not preserved or is, at least, not publically
accessible as text. So, in effect, there is no text to put on a layer.

: Ideally being able to select the text font, size, and, if at all
: possible, kerning.
:
Pro/e has functions to handle everything except kerning. It's internal style
function can take outline fonts (post script, true type) and modify
characteristics like type face, height, width and slant angle. These internal
fuctions are available to sketched text (text created using the sketcher text
function) which is utilized by sketched curves ('Feature>Create>Curve>Sketched
curve') and cosmetic sketches ('Feature>Create>Cosmetic>Sketch'). In each of
these, you can select the sketcher text tool and create geometry that looks like
text. Since this is not actually text, it would not go on a 'text layer'. However,
with sketched curves in the shape of text, you can create embossed or etched
surfaces which could be used by a manufacturing process to create a silk screen
template. Or, these curves could be exported to, say, an iges file and be directly
used to guide some manufacturing process. The manufacturing process depends on how
the silk screen is produced.

A function which more directly involves text is 'Setup>Notes', used to create 3d
"flying" note text (stays parallel to screen as part rotates) on parts and
assemblies. All the functionality for creating, showing/hiding and linking these
notes is contained within the 'Setup>Notes' functionality. Additionally, something
that might be of use to you is the ability to create the note text with a
hyperlink to a URL, so that the note could read, for example:
"Upper left coner of screened area
Place product information here
Click on this note for content to be silk screened"
Clicking on the note would take one to the web site where the HTML formatted text,
including graphics/logos, was stored. This would get rid of the need to figure out
how to put it directly into the model.

While the functions involving sketcher created text are not truly text functions,
they are, at least, WYSIWYG, giving you an idea of what the result will look like
on a real product. The note function, though more text compatible, does not show
you the end product. There is, at present, no Pro/e function, of which I am aware,
that combines the textual with WYSIWYG, as does desktop publishing or even the
average document processor, such as Word.

David Janes
: TIA
:
: Rip