{"id":35,"date":"2012-03-19T16:59:51","date_gmt":"2012-03-19T16:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35"},"modified":"2013-05-09T14:08:16","modified_gmt":"2013-05-09T13:08:16","slug":"tip-text-profiles-in-solidworks-sketches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/03\/tip-text-profiles-in-solidworks-sketches\/","title":{"rendered":"Tip: Text profiles in SolidWorks sketches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-36 aligncenter\" title=\"blog_Mar2012_Text1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text1.png 320w, https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text1-300x138.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-37 aligncenter\" title=\"blog_Mar2012_Text2\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text2.png 320w, https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/blog_Mar2012_Text2-300x209.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Here\u2019s how:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Start a new sketch.<\/li>\n<li>Place a line, arc, or curve to guide the text.<\/li>\n<li>Start the Text command, and type some text.<\/li>\n<li>Set any additional font properties.<\/li>\n<li>Select the guide curve.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That\u2019s It!<\/p>\n<p>See a movie on how this is done below, or\u00a0at:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/Uue5qHx7HfU\">http:\/\/youtu.be\/Uue5qHx7HfU<\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Uue5qHx7HfU?rel=0&amp;wmode=opaque\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More tips next time from the SolidApps team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1091,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35\/revisions\/1091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}