Emboss in an assembly?

[KingsKorna]

Why can I emboss text in a part but not in an assembly?
We do a lot of marking with ink stamping after we paint our products. I realize I can create test in an Assemly and then Extrude it, but this seems to take up a lot of juice and makes the part slow to work with.
Is there a better solution?

[Anonymous]

Can you create a part that is the text?  Make
a derived part with work surfaces of the part that you want to mate to. 
Offset the one work surface.  Create the text and use the surfaces to cut
the text to fit.

Kathy Johnson

[KingsKorna]

Not sure if I'm "picking up what you're putting down".
The part that is text, is it extruded at all? If I bring that into an assembly it'll show up in the parts list.
I think making a derived part of an assembly adds to the confusion and seems to be reduntant. It seems like it should be a simple thing to do...no?

[Anonymous]

The text in my solution is extruded and then cut to
the shape that you want.  I guess the question is if you can't
do emboss as an assembly feature then how else are you going to get the
embossing into the assembly. 

Kathy Johnson

[KingsKorna]

I know you can create text and cut it in an assembly...that's how I've been doing it. The problem is, it slows the model down and makes it a huge file, which in turn, makes it tough to work on, even in the .idw files. I was just hoping that there was a better way.

[Anonymous]

Can you make a decal part?  Make a bmp of the
text and add the decal to a part.  This will slow your system down too but
probably not as much as the text will.

Kathy Johnson

[Anonymous]

I suspect you are in the same boat with the pad printing that those of us who do silk screening are in. No good solution exists with any package I've looked at.

[KingsKorna]

Yes, I could do that....but. It's seems like a lot of work to just get text on a part and also it'll show up in the parts list on the top assembly. When you open a sketch and type text on an assembly part and click finish sketch. It shows up in the model....but not when you go to detail it. Why? This would be so easy.
I was hoping for something maybe like a symbol in the .idw files. You can make it so it prompts you to type something in....that would be nice also.

[KingsKorna]

Not exactly thomas. We just do a lot of brazing parts which get painted then marked with a ink stamp. Most of the marking is model number, serial number, date code...etc. It shouldn't be that difficult to do....

[gnrnr]

Could you create the text as a separate part and then include it in the assembly as a "reference" part. Shouldn't show up in the parts list then.



Regards



Steve

[Anonymous]

This will only work if the your views are not
shaded.  A reference part in a shaded drawing comes in as a hidden edge
view while the non reference are still shaded.

Kathy Johnson

[KingsKorna]

OK, How do you make a part a "reference" part in an assembly?

I suppose I could make the text a part and insert it into the assembly. Then when I bring it in to detail it, I could just shut the "visibility" off in the parts list.
It just seems crazy to have to go thru that when all I want is some text written on a part.

[Anonymous]

RMB the part in the browser of the assembly and hit
properties.  The setting is in the occurance tab I think.

Kathy Johnson

[KingsKorna]

Hey that's pretty cool. Still doesn't help with my initial question, but at least I learned something. Thanks