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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
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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