SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text

Learn how to create and manipulate Sketch Text in SOLIDWORKS

Modeling Text in SOLIDWORKS

performance evaluation modeling in SOLIDWORKS

The need often arises to model text on parts. Whether we need to mark it with a part number, product serial number, or other identification marks, markings are essential to design requirements. SOLIDWORKS provides us with several methods to get the job done. But not…

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Mastering the Rotating Functions in SOLIDWORKS

SOLIDWORKS Rotate Part

Here are a few tricks that every user should know about the rotate functions in SOLIDWORKS. We’ll take a look at steps to take that will help you be as efficient as possible when rotating your part and sketch text. We’ll start by clicking and…

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Why is my SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text Upside Down?

SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text Upside Down

Have you noticed that sometimes your SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text is upright going left to right but sometimes the text is upside down and is reversed right to left? This is not a bug or a mistake in the program but rather an intended behaviour. The…

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Sketch Text Convert Entities in SOLIDWORKS Workaround

If you are reading this article then you have most likely tried to use Convert Entities on SOLIDWORKS  Sketch text and was not able to?! Although we cannot use Convert Entities on Sketch text (at least for now…SPR shown at end of article) we can…

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How to link a SOLIDWORKS Custom Property to Sketch Text [VIDEO]

SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text

The ability to link SOLIDWORKS custom property to an instance of Sketched Text within a drawing is a feature we have had since this capability was introduced in the 2010 release of SOLIDWORKS. The video below will show you how to do just that! Note:…

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Using SOLIDWORKS Sketch Text to create a Magic 8-Ball

SOLIDWORKS Magic 8 Ball

To get into the April Fool’s spirit, I’ve decided to go with a bit of a silly one today. After hearing on the radio the other morning that economists are again predicting a recession, I decided that in an effort to save money, I would…

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