EMBOSS BUG: Text not selectable as a sketch element when rotated

[jonwienke]

I'm trying to emboss a cylindrical surface, where the cylinder has been rotated 12 degrees on the X axis. I created a sketch, created a text object in the sketch, and rotated the text 12 degrees to match the rotation of the cylinder to be embossed. But the emboss command will NOT let me select the text. I can select the text object normally when browsing, but it's not selectable once the emboss dialog is opened:

https://autode.sk/2P2z3Pj

I'm not doing anything different from any other time I've used Emboss previously. There's no reason the text shouldn't be selectable.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

Please share the file.

File > export > save as f3d on local device  > attach it to the next post.

günther

[jonwienke]

This is the file.

[g-andresen]

Hi,

the text box is corrupt.

Delete it an create the text once more

uncheck "tangent chain"

günther

[jonwienke]

The text is not "corrupt", it is just rotated 12 degrees on the X axis. You can extrude it and do anything else you want with it, except emboss. If you can't rotate the text to match the surface being embossed, getting the vertical alignment is a manual PITA instead of aligning the text box with the correct geometry. It is 100% a bug.

[jonwienke]

Rotating the text back to zero degrees "un-corrupts" it, but that spoils the vertical alignment I wanted.

[jeff_strater]

yes, that seems like a bug to me.  Text should be selectable even if it is not in the sketch plane, I believe.  Will run this by the team to investigate.  Thanks for sharing the model.

[jonwienke]

Thank you. You can't select a curved surface as a sketch plane, so disallowing text not on a sketch plane is an unnecessary PITA when embossing any surface that is curved or otherwise not selectable as a sketch plane.

[nikhil.naikNLKQG]

@jonwienke - Thanks for reaching out to forum. This text is un-selectable because rotating it for positioning out of the sketch plane makes it a 3D sketch, which is not supported by Emboss yet. It may be improved. Btw, just for my understanding, is there any advantage of moving text alone instead of creating the plane at desired angle and creating text on it, do you find that is an easier way?

[jonwienke]

It's a non-intuitive pointless stupid PITA to have to create a new plane, rotate the plane to match the angle of the angled curved surface to be embossed, create a new sketch, create the text, and align the text with elements from a different sketch before being allowe to select the text. There's no good reason to impose that sort of limitation on the Emboss tool, when you can extrude rotated text objects with no such limitations. It's just crappy design, if not a bug.

[nikhil.naikNLKQG]

@jonwienke - You're right, that sounds complicated.  

I looked at the part, the bottom part in your design is posing some challenges in creating Sketch35 it seems.

(I am not clear about "...matching thee angle of angle curved surface" and "...align the text elements from a different sketch" in your reply, but Emboss could be created using a sketch on offset plane, like a regular sketch)

Emboss preview

F3d file attached for your reference (It will open in 2.0.9849 and above versions). 

Alternatively, Emboss can work even if the sketch is placed on a plane offset to XZ plane, it will handle the orientation part. 
Please check if it works for you, meanwhile.

[nikhil.naikNLKQG]

I like the design, by the way. Looks cool! 👍