Sketch text

00:02

sketch text.

00:05

After completing this video,

00:07

you'll be able to create sketch text and explode sketch text

00:12

Infusion 3 60. Let's get started with a new untitled document.

00:16

We're gonna be exploring how to create and use text and sketches.

00:20

So we want to get started by creating a new sketch

00:24

with a new sketch created. We want to create a few sketch entities.

00:28

First I'm going to create a line

00:30

and it would just create the line at an angle,

00:32

zoom out a little bit

00:34

and let's create a spline.

00:37

Just go ahead and add three points to the spline

00:40

And one more time we want to create an arc and I'm gonna go

00:44

ahead and zoom out a little bit more and create an arc down here.

00:50

That escape to get off of our sketch tools.

00:52

Next we're going to go to create and select text

00:56

when we create text. This can be done either inside of a text box or along a path.

01:02

So first let's simply create a small text box

01:07

inside of my sample text section.

01:09

I'm just going to simply type in box note that we have control over the font,

01:14

the typeface, the height, the character spacing.

01:18

Whether or not we flip if we align it inside of the box and we can say, okay,

01:24

let's go ahead and repeat that process.

01:27

But this time instead of using the box option, let's do text on a path.

01:31

This time I'm going to do on line,

01:36

I'm going to increase the text height to 25 mm and we'll say, Okay,

01:42

let's repeat this one more time for this.

01:44

I'm going to use my right click marking menu and select repeat text.

01:48

We're going to select this spline as our path

01:51

and notice that the text is aligned

01:54

for sample text. I'm going to simply say on spline

01:58

Using the same default values.

01:59

But this time I'm going to increase the character spacing and I'm going

02:02

to say 1.0 and it gives it a little bit more space.

02:07

One more time. I'm going to right click repeat and I'm going to select my arc

02:12

and this one is going to simply be on arc

02:15

this time my character spacing is going to be

02:17

to giving it just a little bit more space.

02:20

And I'm going to italicize it now that we have all

02:23

these different text entities will note that as we select them,

02:27

they're going to be one single selection

02:30

the Arcs,

02:31

the split lines and the lines aren't really needed so we can

02:35

change them to construction since they won't be used for any of our

02:39

text creation. This can also be done with X on the keyboard

02:44

but now we need to think about what we want to do with the text.

02:47

If we simply want to extrude it either to remove it from a solid or to add it to a solid.

02:53

We can finish and we can simply select extrude.

02:56

For example online I can pull up and create solid geometry.

02:60

I can do this with on spline on arc as well as the box.

03:05

But there is something else that we can do with text.

03:08

So for now let's go ahead and expand this and note that

03:11

each of these has created one single solid body for each letter

03:15

and also note that the sketch has been hidden automatically.

03:18

Let's create one more new sketch.

03:20

I'm going to select a different sketch plane and I'm going

03:23

to go to create text and just draw a text box

03:29

here. We're gonna call this one

03:31

explode.

03:33

Once I say, okay, if I select the text and right click,

03:36

we get the option to explode the text exploding the text.

03:40

Takes it from a graphic to now each entity is

03:44

going to be an individual line arc or spline.

03:48

You'll notice with rounded letters such as the P.

03:51

We have a lot of different arcs here.

03:53

Now these can't necessarily be adjusted or pulled but we

03:58

do have control over what we do with them.

04:01

For example, if we wanted to go to create

04:04

select an ellipse and we wanted to change the inside of the letter P.

04:08

We could use an ellipse

04:11

to recreate the inside of the P.

04:14

And we can double click on this and convert it to construction,

04:18

making that entire thing.

04:19

Construction means that the new ellipse that we created is

04:23

going to be the new center of that letter.

04:26

Now this could be done not only to just change the way the inside of the letters work,

04:30

but we can also do things to say connect letters together.

04:34

If we wanted to create a spline that went from here up to here,

04:41

we could use constraints such as tangent C between this

04:44

edge and the spline and this edge and the spline

04:47

can hit escape.

04:48

I can delete the spline point and now we can work with our text,

04:52

creating a more unique version of that text.

04:56

So when working with text,

04:57

if you want to use the individual entities converted from the text,

05:02

you need to select and explode it.

05:04

But if you simply want to extrude it or use it as a solid feature,

05:08

then you can simply just use the text as it gets created

05:12

for this example, we're not going to be reusing text.

05:15

So you can decide whether or not you want to save it for me.

05:18

I'm going to go ahead and just save it as text into

05:21

my sketching folder and then move on to the next step.

Video transcript

00:02

sketch text.

00:05

After completing this video,

00:07

you'll be able to create sketch text and explode sketch text

00:12

Infusion 3 60. Let's get started with a new untitled document.

00:16

We're gonna be exploring how to create and use text and sketches.

00:20

So we want to get started by creating a new sketch

00:24

with a new sketch created. We want to create a few sketch entities.

00:28

First I'm going to create a line

00:30

and it would just create the line at an angle,

00:32

zoom out a little bit

00:34

and let's create a spline.

00:37

Just go ahead and add three points to the spline

00:40

And one more time we want to create an arc and I'm gonna go

00:44

ahead and zoom out a little bit more and create an arc down here.

00:50

That escape to get off of our sketch tools.

00:52

Next we're going to go to create and select text

00:56

when we create text. This can be done either inside of a text box or along a path.

01:02

So first let's simply create a small text box

01:07

inside of my sample text section.

01:09

I'm just going to simply type in box note that we have control over the font,

01:14

the typeface, the height, the character spacing.

01:18

Whether or not we flip if we align it inside of the box and we can say, okay,

01:24

let's go ahead and repeat that process.

01:27

But this time instead of using the box option, let's do text on a path.

01:31

This time I'm going to do on line,

01:36

I'm going to increase the text height to 25 mm and we'll say, Okay,

01:42

let's repeat this one more time for this.

01:44

I'm going to use my right click marking menu and select repeat text.

01:48

We're going to select this spline as our path

01:51

and notice that the text is aligned

01:54

for sample text. I'm going to simply say on spline

01:58

Using the same default values.

01:59

But this time I'm going to increase the character spacing and I'm going

02:02

to say 1.0 and it gives it a little bit more space.

02:07

One more time. I'm going to right click repeat and I'm going to select my arc

02:12

and this one is going to simply be on arc

02:15

this time my character spacing is going to be

02:17

to giving it just a little bit more space.

02:20

And I'm going to italicize it now that we have all

02:23

these different text entities will note that as we select them,

02:27

they're going to be one single selection

02:30

the Arcs,

02:31

the split lines and the lines aren't really needed so we can

02:35

change them to construction since they won't be used for any of our

02:39

text creation. This can also be done with X on the keyboard

02:44

but now we need to think about what we want to do with the text.

02:47

If we simply want to extrude it either to remove it from a solid or to add it to a solid.

02:53

We can finish and we can simply select extrude.

02:56

For example online I can pull up and create solid geometry.

02:60

I can do this with on spline on arc as well as the box.

03:05

But there is something else that we can do with text.

03:08

So for now let's go ahead and expand this and note that

03:11

each of these has created one single solid body for each letter

03:15

and also note that the sketch has been hidden automatically.

03:18

Let's create one more new sketch.

03:20

I'm going to select a different sketch plane and I'm going

03:23

to go to create text and just draw a text box

03:29

here. We're gonna call this one

03:31

explode.

03:33

Once I say, okay, if I select the text and right click,

03:36

we get the option to explode the text exploding the text.

03:40

Takes it from a graphic to now each entity is

03:44

going to be an individual line arc or spline.

03:48

You'll notice with rounded letters such as the P.

03:51

We have a lot of different arcs here.

03:53

Now these can't necessarily be adjusted or pulled but we

03:58

do have control over what we do with them.

04:01

For example, if we wanted to go to create

04:04

select an ellipse and we wanted to change the inside of the letter P.

04:08

We could use an ellipse

04:11

to recreate the inside of the P.

04:14

And we can double click on this and convert it to construction,

04:18

making that entire thing.

04:19

Construction means that the new ellipse that we created is

04:23

going to be the new center of that letter.

04:26

Now this could be done not only to just change the way the inside of the letters work,

04:30

but we can also do things to say connect letters together.

04:34

If we wanted to create a spline that went from here up to here,

04:41

we could use constraints such as tangent C between this

04:44

edge and the spline and this edge and the spline

04:47

can hit escape.

04:48

I can delete the spline point and now we can work with our text,

04:52

creating a more unique version of that text.

04:56

So when working with text,

04:57

if you want to use the individual entities converted from the text,

05:02

you need to select and explode it.

05:04

But if you simply want to extrude it or use it as a solid feature,

05:08

then you can simply just use the text as it gets created

05:12

for this example, we're not going to be reusing text.

05:15

So you can decide whether or not you want to save it for me.

05:18

I'm going to go ahead and just save it as text into

05:21

my sketching folder and then move on to the next step.

Video quiz

Which of the following options can be used to turn the characters of a Text object in a sketch into individually selectable sketch entities?

(Select one)
Select an answer

1/1 questions left unanswered

Step-by-step

It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser.

Was this information helpful?