wrapping text around a coned face

Have you ever had a coned surface that you needed to add text too?  I ran into this about a year ago and then came across the same situation this week again so I thought I would share with everyone here how I accomplished this.  I want to be upfront though, when I ran into this last year, Jeff Mirisola helped me out with how to accomplish this so I have to give him all of the credit for this.

Below you will see my original part.  Just a simple revolved part with a coned or angled face on it.

Step 1

Your first step is to create a plane normal to the coned face.  Select the coned surface and then select a plane to make your new plane perpendicular to.  In my case I used the Right Plane.  SolidWorks will give you a result similar to what is shown below.

Step 2

On your newly created plane, start a new sketch and insert sketch Text.  You can find this at Tools > Sketch Entities > Text.  Positioning is kind of a science but I would suggest using some curves for your text to follow.  This is good for positioning as well as for making sure your text is centered.

Step 3

Now you are ready to either emboss, deboss or scribe your text on your face.  Select the sketch you just created and then use the Wrap tool.  You can find this at Insert > Features > Wrap.  Now select the face that you want to wrap around, select whether you would like to emboss, deboss, or scribe and hit the green check mark.

Voila!  You now have your text wrapped around your coned face as shown below.