Pro/DESKTOP 9: Using Text

This worksheet will show you how to include text in your designs and how to extrude that text to form 3D lettering. You will need to have completed Pro/DESKTOP 1 and Pro/DESKTOP 2 before getting started and might need to look at  Pro/DESKTOP 7  to help you place your screwholes exactly. You should end up with something like this:

1. Open a new design.

2. Hold down Shift and press W to go onto the workplane.

3. Draw a rectangle 350mm by 140mm.

4. Draw four circles, each of 50mm diameter, centred on each corner of the rectangle.

5. Use the Delete Line Segment (Scissors) tool to snip away the corner of the rectangle and the major arcs of the circles. You should be left with a rectangular shape that has a curve at each corner.

6. Hold down Shift and press T to go onto the trimetric view.

7. Extrude the shape to 20mm.

8. Click on Select then Edges. Hold down Shift and select all the top edges of the block.

9. Click on Feature then Chamfer Edges. Chamfer the edges to 8mm.

10. Hold down Shift and press W to go onto the workplane.
11. Click on Select then Faces. Highlight the top face of the block.

12. Click on Workplane then New Sketch. Call the sketch Screwholes then click OK.

13. Draw two circles of 5mm diameter 20mm in from the short sides of the block and centrally placed between the long sides. (Use Pro/DESKTOP 7 if you need to get to learn about Dimension Constraints)
14. Highlight both the circles. Click on Feature then Insert Hole.
15. Select Countersunk and Through entire part. Type in 10 for the Countersink diameter and 5 for the Hole diameter. Click OK.
16. Click on Select then Faces. Highlight the top face of the block.

17. Click on Workplane then New Sketch. Call the sketch Text then click OK.

18. Click on Line then Add Text Outline. A dialogue box will appear.

19. Select Arial, Bold and type in 40 in the Height box. Type your text into the space provided. Click on OK.

20. Drag the text into position, ensuring that it is centrally placed. You may need to go onto the workplane to do this.

21. Click on Select then Lines. Highlight all the text but be careful not to highlight anything else.

22. Click on Feature then Extrude Profile. Choose Subtract Material and Below Workplane. Enter 8 into the Distance box. Click on OK. The letters should indent themselves into the workpiece.

23. Save your work.

24. Open an new album and render the doorsign.