Aligning Text on a Surface

Aligning Text on a Surface

AmarandAgasi
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Aligning Text on a Surface

AmarandAgasi
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I've Googled this for hours today, and a few hours yesterday, and I still can't find an obvious way to do this:

 

I'd like to be able to, say, create a box (let's keep it simple!), and then add a sketch to a box face.  Add some lines of text, and then have the text aligned to the center of that face.  I've tried again and again, and I can't get it to work.

 

I imagine the easiest way to center align these blocks of text, would be to do it before you "explode" the text, because after you've exploded the text, they become individual objects - not very easy to align to anything.

 

As far as aligning, I really only need to align it to the face of the plane. Doesn't need to be tricky or confusing.  I'm fairly good at manually aligning things, but being able to click-click align would be nice.

 

I did try drawing some "Xes" from corner to corner of each of the text blocks, and then create a center point where that intersects.  But having a center point on the text, I still can't figure out how to align the text horizontally to the box face.

 

Am I missing something?

 

Just to make sure I'm being absolutely clear, I'd like to do this within Fusion 360, I don't want to have to import an SVG from Illustrator or wherever.

 

I've attached an image with an example of three blocks of text before, after horizontal alignment, and after vertical distribution, grouping and vertical centering as a group, just so we're on the same sheet of drafting paper.  Smiley Happy

 

Thanks!

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etfrench
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Use dimensions and constraints to do the aligning.

 

Experiment with the different sketch constraints.  There are also more efficient dimensioning techniques for parameterizing patterns.

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This video underscores a tremendous weakness in my mind with Fusion360:  It simply cannot handle text.

When the author put a logical dimension in to locate the text, the software went haywire for no reason... except that for some unknown reason the constraints on the text caused it to... so he/she then deleted the constraints and construction lines to get the proper dimension vertically.  This worked to get vertical spacing, but it TOTALLY BROKE the location that was previously specified that centered the text horizontally...   

If you now needed to move the text, or if it was referenced to something in the drawing you are totally broken and you spend hours and hours trying to get a design locked down and you CANNOT!  How could a program that is so good have such an incredible weakness?  This should be SO SIMPLE... type the text, pick the font size and that should LOCK down the text box size as a constraint.  I've done so many things that take so much time to try to lock the text boxes down and you just can't.

WHY AUTODESK, WHY?????