Is it possible to rectangular pattern text for engraving?

[m.van.hameren]

Im making a needle template with lots of holes in rows and colums, I did this with the rectangular pattern. Now the holes need to be marked with numbers for engraving purposes.

So I made a new sketch, numbered one hole with the 'text' command, but when I use the rectangular pattern in sketchmode, you can't select the text, and neither when back in Design (out of sketch) with Create/Pattern.

My goal was to get all the numbers in the exact same position above the hole's with, at first, the same text. Then unlock the pattern and change the text in the appropriate numbers. Much quicker then doing all holes apart.

Can this be done?? Thanks for your time!

Mark.

[wmhazzard]

As far as I can tell, no you can not do that. 

[HughesTooling]

Think your only option is select the text and Ctrl+C then Ctrl+V position copy, Ctrl+V position, repeat. Might save a bit of time as it's easy to keep the copies aligned. You could add constraints and dimensions from a datum point as well to keep them in the correct position.

Mark

[g-andresen]

Hi,

maybe this workaround is acceptable to you?

position numbers

günther