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hatching text

hatching text

hatching text

(OP)
Hi guys, I'm drawing some panels, which need text silk-screened on them, I've drawn the text as extruded features on the sheet metal. Now I'm drawing the art work page, and to highlight what needs silk-screening, I'm trying to hatch the text with a solid pattern, which works, except that every successive letter I select, takes progressively longer to process, Its at the point where it's taking near 15 seconds from selecting the region, to the region hatching, and it’s getting progressively worse.
Is there a way to select several regions at once, or otherwise remedy the situation? Has anyone else had this problem?

Any help is appreciated, thanks,
Nick

RE: hatching text

For artwork, I have always called out in a drawing note what font is used and if it is filled with which color. Then I DXF the dwg to the silkscreen vendor. Always works for me. I wouldn't waste any time trying to fill the text. The file size gets bigger and works slower.

Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks 06 4.1/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 06-21-06)

RE: hatching text

Text in the SM is complex geometry and not your are making solid hatch for each letter... it's all complex and depending on your computer specs and drivers used will limit to how fast it will process. However this is still complex geometry and will require more time to do for each letter.

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376

RE: hatching text

nmaxwell,

We also design sheet metal parts that require silk-screening. What we have found that works best is that we just type the text in the drawing where needed. Also we create sketch blocks for various symbols that we use on our drawings.

All or most of our silk-screeners require an Adobe Illustrator file. So we create the final artwork in that program. The Text and symbols on the drawing are just sort of a reference to the adobe Illustrator file.

We even tried to embed the Illustrator file into the drawing document but it trasfers over really messed up. This was the best and easiest way we have found to work around this kind of issue.

If anyone else has better ways of doing this I would be interested to know also.

Best Regards,
Jon

Challenges are what makes life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.
http://solidworks.carbonmade.com/
Solidworks 2006 SP4.0

RE: hatching text

(OP)
Ok thanks guys, yeah I figured I was just doing it the hard way, although I'd still say it’s poorly coded, or looks like an area fit for improvement.

thanks,
nick

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