Add a Text to a Sketch
General
- Add text to the sketch if you want to use text to modify the geometry of the model.
- You can use the text of the sketch, for example, for adding or removing extrusion, or make it a guide curve or a cross section.
- You can edit the text
- Double-click the text or
- Select the text and the select the context-sensitive function Properties.
- You can use the clipboard functions (copy, cut and paste) to handle the text in the sketch.
Add a Text to a Sketch
- Start adding text.
- Select Sketch | Note Text or
- Select the context-sensitive function Add Annotation.
- The program opens the dialog box Note Properties.
- Enter the text you want to add.
- If necessary, use superscript or subscript, add special characters or search for text macros.
- See: Note Properties Dialog Box
- Select the text properties.
- Height.
- Angle.
- Scale.
- Curvature.
- Letter spacing.
- Width.
- Font.
- If necessary, select
- Mirrored to mirror the text.
- Single line, if you want to create a guide curve of the lines.
- This option excludes the possibility of operations extrude, revolve, or cross-section.
- Click OK to accept the text.
- If necessary, select an auxiliary function, before clicking the position of the text.
- Rotate text 90°, 15°, or the angle you enter.
- Click the reference point point of the text.
- Mirror the text.
- Select the location of the text.
- The program opens the dialog box Note Properties.
- Repeat steps 2 to 7 to add the next text.
- Stop adding texts to the sketch
- Click Cancel in the dialog box or
- Press the Esc key.
Edit the Text Location
You can position the text:
- By dragging the text to a new location.
- By adding sketch constraints to the auxiliary lines of the text.