{"id":4548,"date":"2016-08-04T11:56:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2016-08-04T11:56:26","modified_gmt":"2016-08-04T10:56:26","slug":"solidworks-tech-tip-dissolving-sketch-text-into-separate-sketch-entities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2016\/08\/solidworks-tech-tip-dissolving-sketch-text-into-separate-sketch-entities\/","title":{"rendered":"SOLIDWORKS Tech Tip: Dissolving Sketch Text into Separate Sketch Entities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When adding text to a model to create a cut out, some of the text created, for example the middle of a &#8220;O&#8221; or a &#8220;D&#8221; may get lost. To prevent this from happening use the SOLIDWORKS command &#8220;Dissolve Sketch Text&#8221;.<\/p>\n<h1 class=\"topictitle1\">Dissolving Sketch Text into Separate Sketch Entities<\/h1>\n<div class=\"DITAtopicbody\">\n<div class=\"section\">\n<p class=\"stem\">To dissolve sketch text into separate sketch entities:<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"p\">\n<ul>\n<li>In an open sketch, right-click the text (the pointer changes to <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/help.solidworks.com\/2013\/English\/SolidWorks\/sldworks\/doc1292868204970.image\" alt=\"pointer_Text.gif\" \/> when it is over the sketch text) and select <span class=\"uicontrol\">Dissolve sketch text<\/span>.\n<p class=\"stepresult\">The sketch text is converted into non-text sketch entities (for example, lines, arcs, splines, and so on).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>The video below shows what happens if you don&#8217;t use this command and then shows how to use the command, to achieve the desired result.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/ziIc_utvGWs?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When adding text to a model to create a cut out, some of the text created, for example the middle of a &#8220;O&#8221; or a &#8220;D&#8221; may get lost. To&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solid-applications","category-solidworks"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4548\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}