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

  1. Start adding text.
    • Select Sketch | Note Text or
    • Select the context-sensitive function Add Annotation.
    • The program opens the dialog box Note Properties.
  2. Enter the text you want to add.
  3. Select the text properties.
    • Height.
    • Angle.
    • Scale.
    • Curvature.
    • Letter spacing.
    • Width.
    • Font.
  4. 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.
  5. Click OK to accept the text.
  6. 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.
  7. Select the location of the text.
    • The program opens the dialog box Note Properties.
  8. Repeat steps 2 to 7 to add the next text.
  9. 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.