Text Orientation on Bottom surface

ryan_plaisted

There is no good solution to this problem posted on these discussion forums.  It is very easy to rotate text, but that doesn't help when you need to flip it as well.

When a text box is placed on the bottom surface of an object, the text is both upside down and mirror image.  Rotating alone doesn't resolve this, please don't suggest "Transform" function.  

Jake_Rosenfeld

Is the face you are trying to sketch on a planar face? If so just select that face as the sketch plane (instead of a default or construction plane) and everything should come out right-side-up and forwards.

If not post a link to your document and we can help you set up a good coordinate system (via mate connector) for a construction plane to sketch on.

aaron_rhodes

Hi Jake, can you post description on how to set up a coordinate system using a mate connector to solve this reverse text problem?

Jake_Rosenfeld

Hi Aaron,

My answer was a little premature.  There is currently no built-in way to make a sketch plane from a mate connector.  To remedy this, I have written a custom feature to do this:

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/a592864210155cd157330f98/w/a67310bc6aa8b8076cb71bb8/e/45d9b9c74b5766bc386a9bb6

If you've never used a cutom feature before, please check out the "Start using custom features" video on this page:

https://www.onshape.com/featurescript

With this custom feature you can now do the following:

1) Set up a mate connector
2) Use the "Plane from mate connector" custom feature to make a plane on the mate connector
3) Use the new plane as your sketch plane!

Let me know if this works for you

konstantin_shiriazdanov

hi @Jake_Rosenfeld, the problem with custom plane by mate connector features is that when sketch is created on that plane it's coordinate system is still inherited from the global coord.sys. I actually tried to modify original sketch feature it to handle creation of sketches based on mate connector itself (and inheriting it's coordinate system, not global). Here is the thread I rised to discuss this https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/6488/ability-to-select-sketch-coordinate-system-when-creating#latest

Jake_Rosenfeld

Thanks Konstantin,

Yes unfortunately the opPlane call in my feature will realign the plane canonically to the global coordinate system. I've put the issue on our radar.  For now at least this issue (of sketch text reversal) can be solved by using the mate connector and then rotating the sketch text as desired.

lougallo

@ryan_plaisted We do have an improvement for this.