SilkScreen Text

Can a NG contributor point me to guidance that tells how to easily add a text layer to a ProE drawing to place text for silk screening of the assembly?

Ideally being able to select the text font, size, and, if at all possible, kerning.

TIA

Rip

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Rip Rapalski
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"Rip Rapalski" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com... : Can a NG contributor point me to guidance that tells how to easily add : a text layer to a ProE drawing to place text for silk screening of the : assembly? : Not sure what you mean by a 'text layer', but Pro/e does very little with common text formats (doc, html, xml), preferring it's own, proprietary formatting, in which, the text is generally not preserved or is, at least, not publically accessible as text. So, in effect, there is no text to put on a layer.

: Ideally being able to select the text font, size, and, if at all : possible, kerning. : Pro/e has functions to handle everything except kerning. It's internal style function can take outline fonts (post script, true type) and modify characteristics like type face, height, width and slant angle. These internal fuctions are available to sketched text (text created using the sketcher text function) which is utilized by sketched curves ('Feature>Create>Curve>Sketched curve') and cosmetic sketches ('Feature>Create>Cosmetic>Sketch'). In each of these, you can select the sketcher text tool and create geometry that looks like text. Since this is not actually text, it would not go on a 'text layer'. However, with sketched curves in the shape of text, you can create embossed or etched surfaces which could be used by a manufacturing process to create a silk screen template. Or, these curves could be exported to, say, an iges file and be directly used to guide some manufacturing process. The manufacturing process depends on how the silk screen is produced.

A function which more directly involves text is 'Setup>Notes', used to create 3d "flying" note text (stays parallel to screen as part rotates) on parts and assemblies. All the functionality for creating, showing/hiding and linking these notes is contained within the 'Setup>Notes' functionality. Additionally, something that might be of use to you is the ability to create the note text with a hyperlink to a URL, so that the note could read, for example: "Upper left coner of screened area Place product information here Click on this note for content to be silk screened" Clicking on the note would take one to the web site where the HTML formatted text, including graphics/logos, was stored. This would get rid of the need to figure out how to put it directly into the model.

While the functions involving sketcher created text are not truly text functions, they are, at least, WYSIWYG, giving you an idea of what the result will look like on a real product. The note function, though more text compatible, does not show you the end product. There is, at present, no Pro/e function, of which I am aware, that combines the textual with WYSIWYG, as does desktop publishing or even the average document processor, such as Word.

David Janes : TIA : : Rip

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