Patterned Radial text

[cdown]

Guru's,

I am trying to remember how to do a text pattern around a cylindrical surface, but have the text change as the pattern goes around .ie a micrometer scale.

Does anyone remember how to do this?

Thanks in advance

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[dgallup]

You need to make the text in the sketch a parameter. There is a check box in the text sketch dialog box "use parameter". The parameter needs to already exist. Then you need to create a sketch relation that varies the parameter based on some known dimension. In my case, I was varing the numbers around a dial like a clock face, the relations are:

month=12-kd6/30
month_text=ITOS(MONTH)

My parameter for the text is &month_text. This was to make the month/year date codes they mold into plastic parts for traceability.

In Reply to Colin Down:

Guru's,

I am trying to remember how to do a text pattern around a cylindrical surface, but have the text change as the pattern goes around .ie a micrometer scale.

Does anyone remember how to do this?

Thanks in advance

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[mlocascio]

David,



Could you explain some of the syntax used in that last statement? I can follow the logic behind your first parameter where you are setting up a parameter based on a known dimension (kd6?). But I don’t know what the term “ITOS” does.



Michael P. Locascio

[TomU]

ITOS - Integer to string

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[kkrahmer]

Colin,
I had this in my files from the past. Hopefully you can modify it to your situation. It is a clever solution. Hat tip to Lyle Beidler.


Incrementing sketched text by using pattern
My coworker wants to create a pattern of cuts, where the sketch for each cut
is text, and the text is simply a number, starting at 1 and counting up. I
seem to recall there's a way to relate this text to a pattern index, but I
can't find it. Can anyone help us out?

Thanks.


Fun problem, easy solution.
1) In your text sketch, sketch a point dimensioned X units away from
zero.
2) Create a sketcher relationship, LABEL=itos(sd0/X) (or whatever the sd#
of the X dimension was). The ITOS function is "integer to string" and the
equation sets the text at X units="1", X*2 units="2", etc.
3) Create your sketched text and choose LABEL as the driving parameter.
sketch your text relative to the sketch point you just created, that way the
text label and the point will move together. The simplest would be to draw
the text line straight up from the point and then set the text to be
centered horizontally.
4) Finish the sketch. Modify the X dimension and watch the fun (if you
did it correctly, the number will rapidly change as it dynamically moves the
location)
5) Create a dimension pattern picking the X and incrementing by X.