![]() 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. 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. ![]()
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