How to create text in Onshape CAD

In this video, Mr. E demonstrates how to use the text box tool in the Onshape CAD program.

This is one video from Mr.E’s extensive Onshape tutorial collection. See the entire playlist at the link below.

[johnhimmington]

this was actually extremely helpful and I don't know why you don't have more likes for it thank you so much

[Po-]

Thank you very much. Short and concise.

[DadoSutter]

Thank you for the video. I was actually looking for ways to center and justify Text along an area, say an offset from you panel border.

[zaza]

Great video very on point and informative 👍

[siggiingason]

Thanks for your explication on how to create text. It's exactly what I was looking for.

I have a question, once you have created the text, how do you edit the text to change it? Say you make a spelling mistake, but you don't want to start from scratch, you just want to edit the text after it was completed. How do you edit the text once it's been completed?

[caseyhoyt]

It is possible to add a silhouette, instead of text? I need something that has a skull and cross bones in the middle. Thanks!

[michaelamoah]

When I select a face to create a new sketch, I notice that "New Sketch" is not available. Any help?
Thanks.

[florianp.]

how can i write at an angle? So its round... You know what i mean? Btw realy nice vid!

[kyleseaman]

but how do you edit what the text says?

[ubist]

Onshape's text tool is extremely basic.I haven't been able to find a way to create a text item and then go back and edit the text. Once you click out of it the text is locked. If I use Copy Sketch Entities and then Paste, copied text items don't appear. I thought embossing some number labels next to some holes would be a simple matter of creating one label, pasting it multiple times and just changing the numbers. But each text item has to be created and sized individually. For this task I found it much easier to export the .STL file and add the labels in Tinkercad.

[mrb]

3D printers have zero issues printing wildly complex geometry. Not being able to use all the fonts installed on my machine and have onshape convert them into paths after the placement is finalized really, really sucks. I don't want to put any of those super ugly fonts they offer on anything I design.