From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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Customize your model with the Text tool

Customize your model with the Text tool - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

From the course: SOLIDWORKS: 3D Printed Product Enclosure

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Customize your model with the Text tool

- [Instructor] The assemble is now almost finished, but we're just going to add some final finishing touches and the first of these is going to be some text. There's many reasons why you might want to add text, maybe just for your own personal branding, or you want to label these ports, or add a warning, or something like that. Open your top part and we're going to add text into this open area here. But you can use these principles to add it anywhere in your model. Firstly, start a sketch on this top face just by clicking on it and pressing Sketch, and then choose the Text tool from the Sketch tab. It's this one that looks like an A. Then just type the text you want in this text box on the left. So I'm going to write something like Enclosure 1. You can write anything you want, maybe a name or something like that. You can see the text appears here in the graphics area. And anywhere that we left-click the text will move…

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