In this video, Mr. E demonstrates how to use the text box tool in the Onshape CAD program. This is one video from Mr.E’s extensive Onshape tutorial collection. See the entire playlist at the link below. • Learning how to 3D mod...
You can also use any vector editing program like Corel Draw, Illustrator, etc... you just export DXF then have it translated to DWG here. cloudconvert.com/dxf-to-dwg
Thanks for your explication on how to create text. It's exactly what I was looking for. I have a question, once you have created the text, how do you edit the text to change it? Say you make a spelling mistake, but you don't want to start from scratch, you just want to edit the text after it was completed. How do you edit the text once it's been completed?
Happy to be able to assist! And good question. If you're in the sketch you created the text in, you can right click your text box and click "edit feature". This should open up the text box to make edits, then press the green check and it will refresh back to your extrusions or whatever else you added.
It is! You can import a jpg or dxf by pressing the + button in the bottom left corner, then place an image in a sketch. You can then trace or manipulate it based on the file type you upload.
Onshape's text tool is extremely basic.I haven't been able to find a way to create a text item and then go back and edit the text. Once you click out of it the text is locked. If I use Copy Sketch Entities and then Paste, copied text items don't appear. I thought embossing some number labels next to some holes would be a simple matter of creating one label, pasting it multiple times and just changing the numbers. But each text item has to be created and sized individually. For this task I found it much easier to export the .STL file and add the labels in Tinkercad.
I completely agree the text tool is exceptionally limited. You can edit your text after creation though. After confirming a text box, you can always right click on the text entity and select "edit text" to modify. If you the copy entities, it does paste without a common origin so they often do not paste in the same location, or will not paste if it can't find common properties between sketches. I often add text is post processing methods as well to access a greater font library. Thanks for viewing, hope this helps!
Without seeing it, not sure. It sounds like you might not be selecting a flat face, but a curved one instead? Try clicking sketch first, then selecting your desired face when the sketch window appears.
Thanks! If I understand correctly, I think you’re looking to use the fillet tool. Check out my other video here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-eApyyNPppaY.html
3D printers have zero issues printing wildly complex geometry. Not being able to use all the fonts installed on my machine and have onshape convert them into paths after the placement is finalized really, really sucks. I don't want to put any of those super ugly fonts they offer on anything I design.
I agree! I usually end up exporting a STL from onshape and dropping it into tinkercad to add vector text as shown in the following video. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_UsslbRtgI0.html
