Flat text and SW

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Good evening everyone,

A quick question about the texts in SW

What is the best way to apply flat text without any 3D effect, such as printed text, to a volume?

Currently and from what I've seen, I apply the text on a sketch and then a 0.001 mm boss-extr, is this the right method ?

Should the text be dissolved afterwards or left as such?

I did dissolution tests and I get a pretty amazing number of splines, curves and straight lines even for the simplest shapes. Which annoys me a bit to have '50' curves for a simple O.

I also noticed that when I export to a . STP or import into SW Composer texts are automatically dissolved.

Moreover depending on the view/angle in compose the texts turns into nice scribbles, while this does not happen for a logo draw on a sketch with the same function (boss-extr of 0.001)

Thank you in advance for your answers

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makes a decal

See this tutorial

http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/photoview-360-apparences-et-decalques

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Thanks  gt22, damn one of the rare A-S3D tutorials that I have zapped

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Hello

 

Try to make the text in sketch and then a "winding" function of the sketch with the "marking" option.

I haven't checked what happens after STEP transfer and it seems to me that Coposer (3dVia in our country) doesn't know how to read these entities; eDrawing to check but behaves better in general than Composer (Solidworks product!)

See the detail in the screenshot

otherwise I opted in the end (because of 3dVia) for a material removal which is less resource-intensive than an extrusion (function statistic)


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Hello

Thank you for the answer BBARRAND,

I did a few tests (one side and flat) with Decal and Winding

Summary of my tests ;

With the decals :

A bit cumbersome to set up, especially since I'm a bit allergic to vector applications or image editing; o), so the result is not very good.

Export to . STP : does not recognize the graphic, the text no longer exists.

Import to compose: same thing.

With Winding :

Very easy to apply,  impeccable result.

Export to . STP : doesn't recognize the function, so no more text, triggers conversion errors when I test the reimport of the .stp file into SW

Import to compose: works very well, the text is there and the result is clean.

There you go, if I have any other news I'll keep you posted

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