What's New: 2025
Most embossed or engraved features and decals include text to represent logos, symbols, instructions, and so on.
Use the Text command to create text used in an embossed (or engraved) feature. You select the text as a profile, and then extrude or cut it on the model. To change it, you edit the sketch, and then edit the text.
Unlike the Emboss command, the Decal command uses an image. The image originates as an image file and you add it to a part sketch. You must manipulate the text size and content in the software where it was created. You can modify the image size in the sketch, but its aspect ratio remains unchanged.
The Emboss command:
The Decal command:
Decals are available in part sketches only, not assembly sketches.
You insert an image in a sketch, position it using constraints and dimensions, and then create a decal feature.
When creating a decal, you can opt to wrap it to planar faces, cylinders, and conical faces. The decal conforms to the face shape without distortion or projection.
When creating decals that conform to face shape:
The sketch plane with the decal image must be tangential or parallel to the face that receives the decal.
The normal direction for both the sketch plane and the destination face (for the decal) must point in the same direction.
The face that receives the decal must be equal to or larger than the decal. If smaller, the decal image is cut off.
Avoid positioning the decal image so that it overlaps a corner. The decal is cut off at the edge because it cannot smoothly wrap to both faces.
If you don’t wrap the decal to a face, the selected faces do not have to be tangent to one another. Their position can be at any angle except normal.
You can apply a decal: