Changing Text in Parts Studio

spiritrider

In the Text mode in Sketch mode of Part Studio, is there a way to reverse and/or inverse the text show. The text seems to always be created with the text +Z direction when sketching. There are those times when you want it to be "upside down" or reverse character. Can this be done currently?

jon_sorrells

When sketch text is created, it automatically gets a horizontal constraint put on it.  You can remove this constraint, which will allow the text to be rotated (try constraining one corner then dragging another).
Like Bruce said, you can transform the solid parts after extruding the sketch.  You can also mirror the entire sketch with a feature mirror.
Here's a document with some sketch text in various orientations https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a81f6c3670ce0777a4dfadca/w/eb552478fed7b94d3b668fb7/e/967b81b821d9ff65110d8fe2

brucebartlett

I don't think those options are in there yet. The best way at the moment would be to extrude then and work with the solid text parts as solid's (transforms and mirrors) to get what you want.

@dave_cowden did an awesome feature script for curved text, this may come in handy for you too. https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cfec40e2b66bb4ddb2f3414b/w/24132f252a02825eb0606641/e/7a70ac021729253c4df9d213

I just played with the curved text feature script again, the only thing it doesn't seem to do is mirror the text, this would be really handy when mold making.  

jon_sorrells

When sketch text is created, it automatically gets a horizontal constraint put on it.  You can remove this constraint, which will allow the text to be rotated (try constraining one corner then dragging another).
Like Bruce said, you can transform the solid parts after extruding the sketch.  You can also mirror the entire sketch with a feature mirror.
Here's a document with some sketch text in various orientations https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a81f6c3670ce0777a4dfadca/w/eb552478fed7b94d3b668fb7/e/967b81b821d9ff65110d8fe2

dave_cowden

@brucebartlett
thanks for the mention!