Dimensioning JPEG In Drawing Files 1

[Cryo1]

I'm sure this has been discussed before....

1. You're provided a complex logo from your customer.

2. Logo must be dimension on drawing to show basic dimensions, location, letter height, and orientation.

How do you added dimesions to a graphic in drawings? This logo is too complicated to engrave on part surface with SW tools.

B. Lail

 

[TheTick]

You can't. The best you can do is dimension to sketch entities. Perhaps you can place sketch points or curves on your image and place dimensions on those. If desired, you can hide the sketch entities on a layer.

Hijaak Pro has some raster-do-vector capability (i.e. JPEG to DXF), and it doesn't cost that much.

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[Cryo1]

Thank you for the suggestion Tick but that not the problem. An inserted image will cover any sketch points or dimiesions on the drawing.

B. Lail

 

[drawoh]

Cryo1,

I do not think anybody does this with logos. Logos usually are laid out in something like Adobe Illustrator, by an artist. If you have something you can apply dimensions to, it probably looks like hell.

Pass the artwork around as a scale model. If you are doing a silkscreen, your silkscreen shops probably has Illustrator, and there is no file translation. Illustrator outputs scale DXF, although making this into a SolidWorks solid model can be a nightmare. SolidWorks does not like Illustrator's curved polylines.

Failing all that, ASME Y14.5M-1994 has instructions for dimensioning and tolerancing curved edges. Depending on the logo, this could be very ugly. Tell your boss how long you expect it to take.

JHG

 

[Cryo1]

Yes, one of the many "i wish it could" features SW doesn't have.

Silkscreening isn't bad. But was are sending a cylinder out for laser engraving with the customes logo. Short of a good solution, we'll fake it somehow.

B. Lail

 

[drawoh]

Cryo1,

One more thought.

On another vector graphics program, not SolidWorks, I inserted a JPEG, then I traced over it to create an accurate outline. I have done this a couple of times to get a conversion between from bitmap to vector graphics.

If I do this where I work, with our corporate logo, our graphics department will kill me. Possibly, your company and customer do not care whether or not the logo is absolutely perfect, but I would not bet on it.

JHG

 

[rockguy]

I would use Tick's suggestion. Place your logo and size accordingly. Then draw a box tightly around the logo. You want to be able to see the lines but be very close to the logo. Then use the box lines to dimension from. once it looks correct you can hide the box lines and leave the dimensions. it's really the only way to achieve this.

 

[Cryo1]

Thanks rockguy. The problem is that some of the dimesions have to be inside of the graphics boundaries. The graphic lays over the dimensions extension lines and blocks them from view.

B. Lail

 

[SBaugh]

That is limitation to SW04. SW05 send the images to the back so Dimensions show through.

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[Cryo1]

Good to know. We'll be loading SW5 after SP 1.x is out.

B. Lail

 

[cjm23]

Could anyone tell me how to take a jpeg logo file and pply it to the surface of a SolidWorks model? Is this even possible?

Thanks,
Chris

 

[Theophilus]

You can apply it as a decal within PhotoWorks (for rendering). Do you need it to show when not rendered, full-time? What about in a drawing?


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[SBaugh]

You should have posted this as a new thread -

You can apply it as a texture also.

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[aamoroso]

Also as a decal in photoworks, I have not used photoworks since SW01 but that always worked well for me.

 

[cjm23]

Thank you for your answers

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

cjm23 ... If you just need the logo to appear in a regular model, you can use the Sketch picture function.

Basically, Start a sketch, select a face, then Tools > Sketch tools > Sketch picture, select picture, Open, then place & resize to suit.

Details can be found in the Help file.

& all the best.

 

[cjm23]

Thanks CorBlimeyLimey.....that did it