Extruding Text in Inventor

[gbradley]

I have read FAQ's, but haven't found the answer to this in Inventor.

I want to Extrude Text on a part.

In Mechanical Desktop it was pretty easy.

Sketch Solving…Text Sketch…

Can you point me in the right direction?

Thanks for any advice.

[JD Mather]

In Mechanical Desktop it was pretty easy.

 

Anything that was easy in MDT is far far easier in Inventor. It is so easy I'm surprised that you are having trouble figuring out how. What version of Inventor are you using?

Do a sketch.

Click on Text.

Click where you want to locate the lower left corner of text string. (you can dimension and constrain if/as needed)

Enter your text. If you want arc text - first create arc.

Extrude.

[gbradley]

Thanks JD, IV2010

I see that it is easy.

I thought that maybe I picked a Font that was too curvy, but maybe that wasn't it.

When I tried it again using Tahoma, it worked fine.

I got it to work using Extrude, as well as Emboss, It's not obvious to me which one is better.

Thanks

[JD Mather]

Extrude allows taper angle (second tab), Emboss allows color change at time of creation and wrap to cylindrical or conic faces.

If I don't need wrap, then I use Extrude as it seems to solve faster.

[gbradley]

...

If I don't need wrap, then I use Extrude as it seems to solve faster.

Thanks again, I'm gonna try Emboss on a curved surface. That will come in handy.

Back to the tutorials.