silkscreening

How does everyone document silkscreening on a part. In the past I've
extruded the silkscreen but my current label are more complicated. I
was hoping there was some way to make the rendered image a view. Any
help would be great

Vizach
SolidWorks 2005 sp3.1

 

The emboss feature is good for this and will work on curved surfaces.

 

Cutting or extruding the text/graphics is very time consuming and
produces large files. On top of that we have to do the whole thing
again in CorelDraw to produce films for the screens.
Then the graphics needs altering so its off through the two prcesses
again, all very frustrating.
What we need is the ability to accurately position a bitmap on the
model. This bitmap MUST support transparency.