Surface Text

dannyi

I'm making a tire and have text on the front side wall. I generated another plane for the back side wall. Copied the text sketch to the new plane but can't get the text to reverse so it reads properly. Tried mirror function and transform but still will not reverse the lettering. 

andy_morris

If you have used the Sketch Text command in the sketch you can flip the text in the dialog. This should give you the orientation that you need.

john_mcclary

Also check out this featurescript, It will help wrap your text around the tire

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cfec40e2b66bb4ddb2f3414b/w/24132f252a02825eb0606641/e/7af1344ab1e54af102d0f4b9

dannyi

andy-morris....where would I find Sketch Text?
john-mcclary...I used surface text for the front of the tire, just can't get it to invert for the back of the tire.

dannyi

Here is a screen shot of my tire......
..this is the back of the tire and the dropdown menu that I get with surface text.

john_mcclary

Would mirror faces work?

MBartlett21

You could ask @dave_cowden if he could add that to the feature.

dave_cowden

@dannyi
yes mirror text would be a nice enhancement to add, but a work around would be to define a difference face with the Z direction opposite of the one you are using now

dannyi

Would it be possible to get a "play by play for this? I tried everything I know of to do and just can't get it done.

dannyi

here's what I have so far....
I can mirror the sketch but the lettering will not follow...

dannyi

mark_prince

I've just used this for the first time - it's a great solution to a problem I've got. Thanks John.

bagr_bagrovic

thx john:)

jonathan_prive

I'm a bit of a noob in onshape, but I can not create a surface text with mirrored letters. I added the Surface text feature and created the text. But how can i Mirror the text? And I would like to have a extra space after the text. The space is deleted automaticly. "abc - abc - abc - " and then round and mirrored.