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Creating text

Creating text - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating text

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- [Instructor] SolidWorks has a very powerful text creation tool which is wonderful for creating things like signs or engraving on a part and a whole bunch of other things we can do with that tool. So to get started let's go ahead and choose this block right here. I'm going to go ahead and start a sketch on that front face. And now right up here under my sketch tool bar I have this one called text, click there and I can go ahead and type in whatever I'd like. So I'm going to type in hello. All right. And notice right here on my screen, I get that little hello, right? And wherever I click or I put my cursor at, and when I click there it moves that text to wherever I happen to click. However, that's not really scientific, right? Because I don't really know how to line things absolutely perfect. You can, you can eyeball it, but I prefer to have things aligned a little bit better. And that's where we get this little thing…

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