Text on an arc
In Fusion 360, one of the only ways of creating text on an arc is to do each letter individually. In your case it will be quite easy as you're using a single circle/arc instead of a spline or conic curve.
- In a sketch, create a circle to use as the baseline for the characters.
- Draw a vertical line from the center point of the circle to the circumference to use as the start point of one of the letters.
- Use a circular pattern to create start points for all of the letters including spaces and the stars using the vertical line as the base.
- Place each letter at its respective start point and rotate it to the same angle as its start point line.
- Final step is to move each letter so its midpoint is on its start point.
Here's a screencast that shows the basic steps (except for the final move):
ETFrench
Now we have sheet metal there's a nice workaround that's easy to setup and the text is easy to edit. I stopped the screencast a bit early, I should have added an extrude at the end to make a solid cylinder out of the ring. I noticed there's a seam if the extrude is the same as the sheetmetal flange so in the attached file I made the extrude a bit thicker than the flange\ring. The letters do deform a bit but in my example the letters are 10mm and the disk is 75, with smaller letters it would not be so bad.
Mark
Mark Hughes
Owner, Hughes Tooling
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FWIW, we agree that text on a path is a basic function. That is a high priority for us this year. Fusion will never have as many text capabilities as, say, Illustrator or some other 2D design software, but we do hope to increase the basic capabilities in the near future.
Jeff Strater
Engineering Director