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I can add sketched lines, but is that going to make the invisible hash marks visible? (They're invisible because Solidworks only wants to show the stuff that will "print" on the part.) I can already see the edges of the part, which is what the hash marks line up with. It's the hash marks that...

Well, actually the hashmarks are part of the artwork for the decal, and if they're not in front of the selected surface I can't see them. I thought of a really awkward trick, which is to modify the part temporarily to have little extra bits sticking off in the right places. But what a mess!

Not ENTIRELY sure this will work, but try this (it's reversable): as you're opening the part, click off "references" in the dialog box before actually opening. Double click on the reference you want to change. Then you can browse to the file you want to use as a reference. I just tested this and...

Actually, I've seen a lot of artwork where the hashmarks aren't on the surface. That way they don't show up. They're supposed to line up with the edges of the part, but not be on it. For instance, the upper right hashmarks are two lines, one above the right edge and one to the right of the top...

That's a good trick, but in this case the hash marks are already past the edge of the surface and I can't see them to line things up. So although I can move the decal around, I don't know when it's in the right place or scaled right.

Yes, that's probably true. But it shouldn't be hard to line them up better than I can do by eye without them.

Thanks. I've played around with that, but in this case the artwork for the decal is oversized, and I wanted to line up the hash marks. I suppose I could open the file with some graphics program and crop it, but that means learning another program. Solidworks seems to do a fine job of cropping...

Can put a decal on a front panel overlay I'm working on, but the location (hash?) marks, which don't fall on the panel, disappear, so that I can't get it precisely positioned. I'll bet there's some simple trick for this. Thanks