Tip: Text profiles in SolidWorks sketches

How can text be aligned or wrapped along a line or curve in a sketch? SolidWorks makes this easy, and in a few steps you can have some interesting text placed accurately on your models.

 Here’s how:

  1. Start a new sketch.
  2. Place a line, arc, or curve to guide the text.
  3. Start the Text command, and type some text.
  4. Set any additional font properties.
  5. Select the guide curve.

That’s It!

See a movie on how this is done below, or at: http://youtu.be/Uue5qHx7HfU

More tips next time from the SolidApps team.

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