Pocketed circular text

[regularfry]

Can someone please just double-check I've got this workflow right and check I've not missed a shortcut somewhere? It seems convoluted, but docs and videos seem to point in this direction.

I want to pocket out some text on a circular path, like on a clockface, or around the face of a coin. Here's what I think I have to do:

1. Set up the text objects using the FCCircularText macro. Clicking "Run" gives me a Group filled with ShapeStrings.
2. Manually ctrl-click to select each face of all the letter ShapeStrings.
3. Once I've got all the faces selected, create a Facebinder.
4. Click Draft to Sketch to give me a sketch. I can delete the ShapeStrings now because they're detached from the sketch.
5. Move that sketch into the right body.
6. Attach the sketch to the relevant face and adjust the position.
7. Pocket.

Is that right? Step 2 is incredibly fiddly and means there's an annoying manual step whenever I want to change the text. Is that the best workflow available?

I'm on:

OS: Windows 10 Version 2009
Word size of OS: 64-bit
Word size of FreeCAD: 64-bit
Version: 0.19.24291 (Git)
Build type: Release
Branch: releases/FreeCAD-0-19
Hash: 7b5e18a0759de778b74d3a5c17eba9cb815035ac
Python version: 3.8.6+
Qt version: 5.15.2
Coin version: 4.0.1
OCC version: 7.5.0
Locale: English/United Kingdom (en_GB)

[mario52]

Hi

0: create one cylindre (r 20mm H 10mm)

FCCircularText
1: write your text
2: Radius 9 mm (radius cylinder 20 mm )
3: choice Mode stand
4: check Extrude Char.
5: give 2mm
6: check Placement
7: Placement position Z-9 (10 H cylinder -1 text = 9.0)
8: click Run+Comp

FreeCAD
9: select :
9a: the cylindre
9b: Comp_ ..... (Text compound in the ComboView)
10: click the "Substract" or 'Fuse" button

you must delete the directory "FcString_........"

report

mario

[chrisb]

You don't need sketches for PartDesign features. See this mini tutorial.

[regularfry]

Fab, thanks folks.