Importing Images

[Marcistat]

I seem to be in a constant battle with logos. I've previously been successful sketching logos and then saving them as blocks, but the logos are becoming more complex.

I was wondering if anyone knew of a program or process that allows the user to convert an image file into an outline for a sketch or directly into a sketch.

I've searched the site and found a thread talking about it with the 2001+ version of SolidWorks. But im curious if there is another way other than using a Bitmap

Regards,

 

[MikeHalloran]

If you can get the logo into some format that SW considers a foreign drawing format, you may be able to use the "2D to 3D" tools within SW.



Mike Halloran
Pembroke Pines, FL, USA

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Are you creating the logos from scratch, or importing and converting from another program? If the latter, what format are you receiving?

If the logo is a bitmap, there are various vector conversion programs available. Although not very good, SW has the Autotrace module.

http://help.solidworks.com/2010/Eng...s/sw_sketch/hidd_sketch_bitmap_properties.htm

Others can be found at

http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=...0&aql=&oq=bitmap&gs_rfai=&fp=b68b844ed7c43276

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Can you get the logos in Adobe Illustrator (.ai) format?