Greetings all,
I've created a simple sheet metal box in Inventor 2008. One surface of the box has openings (holes) for connectors. The completed part will have a coat of paint and silkscreened labels for the connector openings.
Applying the color to the surface of the panel to represent the paint was straight forward. I added the labels by creating a sketch on the panel surface and using the TEXT command within Sketch Mode to specify the labels.
The part appears as I wanted and expect within Inventor (the base material of the part, the paint color, the label text). However, when I publish the part to a DWF and then use ADR2008 to view the DWF, the sketched text is not displayed.
I looked into using the EMBOSS command on the text, but it does not accept a thickness of zero. The DECAL function does not seem appropriate since the text must be defined outside of Inventor and converted to an image (inconvenient) and the silkscreened text is not really a DECAL in any case.
Am I missing a step in either Inventor or in Design Review, that would allow the sketched text to be displayed in Design Review?
Thanks,
Les