This suggestion for extruding text on a curvy surface (See a Matter of Looks) came to me as an email from Jason Stats, CSWP, from Bard Access Systems, and I thought it was a great idea to share it with everyone here. “The way I usually do it is to extrude the text using the “Offset From Surface” end condition with the sketch being behind the surface as you mentioned.  This requires ...

I finally got the new DELL configured and all the software installed and running. I also made sure to copy all my files and download the files I’ll need to work my way through Matt Lombard’s new Surfacing book.  And so, at last, the moment of truth had come:  it was time to fire up SolidWorks 2008 and see for myself what it really looked like!  First, it was the shock of the unfamiliar.  L...