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Creating text

Creating text - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Creating text

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- [Instructor] In this example we're going to be creating some sketch text. To get into the text command let's go up here to the Sketch toolbar and come over here to Text. Click on that one and then go ahead and choose a face to start drawing on. My very first question here, is the curve. What curve do you want to draw along? And I definitely recommend using curves. Now they're not required but let me show you why you might want to use them. Let's go ahead and type out some text over here. I'm going to type in, "Hello." And then notice that is shows up, we're kind of right over here. If I click somewhere else it kind of goes wherever my cursor happens to be on the screen and that's probably not what you want to do because you don't want to be just clicking randomly in some space and just placing the text there. So it's better to have it defined by a curve. So I'd recommend is to cancel out of this command first. And let's go ahead a draw a few curves. So let's click on that face…

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