Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
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I need to add silkscreen text to a sheetmetal part. This is new to me and I was wondering how someone who has experience with this might tackle the issue.
Do I add text to a sketch? Do i just add text to the drawing?
Is there a way to center text at an intersection?
thanks.
Do I add text to a sketch? Do i just add text to the drawing?
Is there a way to center text at an intersection?
thanks.






RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
If you use the bounding box and want that to be a feature I suggest using a sketch for the box, but instead of making it an extruded feature or cut (which would be a problem for subsequent sheet metal bends) make it into a split line. This will show its dimensions in a drawing, but has no depth.
It all depends on what you are trying to show.
- - -Updraft
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
Silk Screen & Art Work on Drawings
To create artwork for the vendor in your SolidWorks drawing; place the text onto the sheet metal model at .005 inches deep. Now place this model into an Assembly. When this Assembly model is placed onto the drawing you see text in an outlined form. Outline corner marks and dimension per silkscreen drawing requirements. Now hatch each peace of text using Solid Properties in the Area Hatch/Fill dialog box. Now here is the trick, find the sheet metal part model not the assembly in the drawing tree. Right mouse click on the part, drag your cursor over Show/Hide, then click Hide Component. Also hide any Pem nuts. Your outline corner marks and dimension with hatched areas are all that is left.
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
Bradley
SolidWorks Premim 2007 x64 SP4.0
PDM Works, Dell XPS Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU
3.00 GHz, 5 GB RAM, Virtual memory 12577 MB, nVidia 3400
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
Do yourself a favor and try a simple part and extrude the text into a feature. Run the feature statistics on the part with this feature both resolved and suppressed. Unless you have a helical sweep it is often the highest regen time of any feature you have. For this reason I only use text as a feature when I absolutely have to. This has only been when I was molding text into a plastic part. Even then I had configs of the part with this feature suppressed and resolved.
- - -Updraft
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
We can do panel artworks entirely within SolidWorks.
- Your panel is an assembly, and the artwork is a separate part. This means your panel looks like the final part.
- Make configurations for panel with artwork, panel with artwork and registration marks, and for panel without artwork.
- Create a drawing from your artwork model. I delete the title block.
- Create a new layer called something like "OUTLINE".
- On the drawing view, change all the lines to the new layer.
- Create a new layer called "HATCH" or something like that.
- From the HATCH layer, fill in all the outlines with a solid hatch.
- Turn off the outline layer.
Done!All the standard assumptions about 3D design practise apply here. If someone sees a spelling mistake on your assembly drawing, you can fix it, and the spelling will be correct on your panel drawing and your artwork.
JHG
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
Chris
SolidWorks 07 4.0/PDMWorks 07
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home (updated 04-21-07)
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
I am having a problem changing my layers. When I try to change the font outline (which is it's own part) to a layer called outline, as stated above, all the parts in all views throughout the drawing also change to the outline layer. So when I turn off the outline layer, also stated above, all the geometry in all my views is also turned off.
Any ideas?
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
I control layers on the silkscreen view using by right clicking on the view and selecting "Component line font...". As far as I know, these changes are limited to the drawing view you selected.
JHG
RE: Best Approach for Silk-screen Text
Is there a way to "group select" items for hatching? I have a part with about 100 individual text entries. I have to click the inside face of each in order to hatch them, very time consuming. Is there a better way?