Apply curved text ona part?

[jjenco]

I have a round, flat part that I want to label with some text around the perimeter. How do I apply a text label to a part and force it to follow a curved path on the part face?

Thanks

 

[YosSa]

Create a plane outside the round part


Text entities - text


Wrap the bastard

 

[jjenco]

Uh, yeah. Thanks. I can't seem to find the 'wrap the bastard' menu item.

If you have an answer, can you be a little more specific as far as the steps involved.

John

 

[YosSa]

insert


features


wrap

 

[Guru.hm]

y to create new plane when u can make use of the existing planes...

 

[jjenco]

Okay. With the above 'clues' i've managed to get the text on the face of the part using the following steps:

Sketch>Circle [to define the arc upon which to place the text]
Tools>Sketch Entitities>Text [to define the text to place on the arc]

After some formatting, the text is on the part exactly as I want it... However, when I opened the corresponding drawing file, the dwg did not update to include the added text element.

How do I get the added text on the part to show up in the drawing file??

Thx

John

 

[YosSa]

Sketch -> Circle -> Extrude


I creat a plane outside the just made extrude


Sketch -> text


Insert -> features -> wrap