@Anonymous wrote:
We are currently in a stupid situation:
Our screen printing is done for a company that wants it sent to them as a .pdf (moronic, I know. Drawing, and then redrawing is not only a waste of time, but also a massive place for errors). However, I'm not the boss here, and I have to accept their choice.
All I need is a text box which shows the font, and size. However, if I could find a way to do this which is linked; I could change the font (which we may do in the future. We use an old'ish font type), and it would update automatically.
How I get to this 'text box with font name and size' is down to artistic freedom.
I'm still not following/grasping but..
Maybe what I do for silkscreening will help..
I will create an idw with a view of the faceplate I need to silkscreen on..
I save copy as and save it as an autocad drawing
I open that drawing in autocad and add all the text/shapes,etc.. that I need (doing it in autocad is much easier IMO for this specific type of work.. Its the ONLY thing I use Autocad for now)
I put all the text on my "silkscreen" layer and then have other information that I want to show up on the silkscreen (a box with the scale/part number/date/revision,etc.. you could put your font information or whatever there too,etc.. on a different layer)
From that Autocad drawing I make a PDF which includes everything that is burned on the actual screen.. This PDF is sent to the company that makes our screens and they print that PDF to a clear film and make the screen... PDF works great for this..
So now that I have my "artwork" done I then create a new part in Inventor and insert that "silkscreen" layer only into a sketch.. Then I extrude all the font .001" high (using an excellent ilogic routine from Curtis that I will post in a second that selects everything at once vs me picking each profile which can take a long time)
My silkscreen layer will include all the screenprinted stuff plus 2 "targets" that are used to constrain that properly to the faceplate..
Then I simply insert that part into an assembly of my faceplate part + the silkscreen part and voila.. works great..
So maybe that will help you..
I've spent a lot of time figuring out how to do screenprinting,etc.. in Inventor as I do quite a bit and this is the best process I've found..
As I stated your font information could easily just be text (on a different layer) right in the autocad file..
If the font ever needs to change thats also a simple 1 click step to globally change everything then you would just redo the insert/extrude in Inventor..
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