Unfortunately, I don't believe it represents the text fonts as fonts though once it gets exported, which would be ideal for the fabrication shop (in case they need to change the font weight or spacing, for example). I haven't tried it yet for this purpose, but in principle it should handle fonts as nice closed vector shapes. I mention that because exports to other vector 2D graphic formats should work similarly. Router that converts shapes in a surface to SVG. The fabrication shop is requesting that the artwork be in Adobe Illustrator format.Ī potential option that might work: there is a Fusion 360 plugin for the Shaper Origin CNC I can use text in a sketch on the panel plane, or text in a Drawing, but neither is an easy export. My model has the holes and cutouts for LEDs and connectors that are mounted to the panel, but I need to generate the artwork for company logo and the text labels that correspond to the LEDs and connectors. I'm facing a similar situation: designing the front panel for an electronics enclosure with buttons and indicators.
#SILKSCREEN SCREEN PDF#
If a good silk-screen output to PDF were included then Fusion 360 is truly a one-stop shop for EEs trying to package electronics. So we're back to using Visio or some other silly tool to, by-eye, make a suitable silk screen master. It's useless, can't be sent to anyone to make a silk screen. I put the silk screen sketch together in less than a half hour.Īnd then in Fusion 360 you hit a brick wall: all this beautiful text is mashed by the outline output.
You can size the font to fit nicely with the controls and you can move it where it is best from an ergonomic and artistic perspective. It's natural to start a new sketch on the face of the surface to be screened, then just use text to put the labels in. The final step is to create a drawing to make the silk screen that will label these controls. A humble EE with absolutely no training in this or any other 3D tool was able to do it. I selected an appropriate off-the-shelf enclosure (in this case Hammond 1590XX) then positioned the board in the enclosure, projecting the mounting holes and the holes needed to expose connectors, indicators and controls. Photographic silkscreen printing: This printing process uses a light sensitive emulsion applied directly to the silkscreen in order to expose a film positive of the image, using a proper light source. For electronics packaging this is often the norm, but even if it were not, outside control markings are so important they would be considered if the case were designed first then used to position the parts on the printed circuit board.įusion 360 is then used to enclose the printed circuit board. This is where all connectors and controls are positioned. In the product referenced in this workflow, the heavy lifting is done on the printed circuit board. This makes the silk screen as critical as the switches themselves, without silk screened labeling the product is useless. Imagine a stereo system or complex piece of test equipment with no front panel markings. It shouldn't take too many steps outside of Fusion to get a good PDF for silk screening. I'm also hoping other forum people can chime in with their workflows. It would just need a solid hatch pattern and PDF output.Īnother Idea Station request is for what you want, a solid hatch pattern in Fusion drawings. Since I put that request up we have added DXF out of sketch which does produce a 1:1 mechanical image, so this might get you farther if you have another tool to work on the DXF. This hasn't moved forward as a project because not many customers are asking for it. I put up this idea station post about PDF from Sketch I am very close to this issue having done a lot of work like this in my days as a designer. This process can be quite time consuming as it is done manually.Sorry to hear of your pain. Silkscreen printing is used for small to medium 'runs' of prints. Silkscreen printing is used in many different art and design areas, such as: The most successful silkscreen prints use bold, simple shapes and designs with limited colours. To allow the colour to flow easily through the pores and to fix the design.
Silkscreen prints are usually made with acrylic paint that is mixed with a binder The design is printed by having a squeegeeįorce colour through the pores of the material in the areas that are not blocked out by the stencil. The screen is coated with a light-sensitive gel and the acetate image is exposed onto the screen using a ultra-violet light source. If using acetate, you photocopy your image onto an acetate sheet. Placed over a mesh cloth stretched over a heavy frame.Ī stencil can be created by carefully cutting out a design from paper and then attaching it to the silkscreen. Silkscreen printing is sometimes known as the silkscreen process. Simple designs and bold colours work well in silkscreen prints
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