inserting bitmaps

[manuelrobalino]

I tried inserting a bitmap as the dial face of a round gauge. It looks great except for the fact that the corners of the plane stick out from the gauge body. The image on the bitmap is round with nothing (transparency) in the background yet the background turns white after you insert it into the sketch plane. Anybody know of a workaround for this?
Thanks.

 

[SBaugh]

Try using it in Photoworks and use that bitmap as a decal. Thats the only way I can think of fixing it. Scott Baugh, CSWP
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[BBJT]

PhotoWorks like Scott said would be the answer. I have however seen people model up gauges with faces. Extruding each hash mark and number. They use split lines to split up the faces so they can add the different colors to different faces. The problem I have with that what value is it adding. If you are doing this for a manual, poster, or something on that line PhotoWorks is defiantly the way to go. BBJT CSWP

 

[manuelrobalino]

Thanks. I ended up inserting the bitmap into autocad, tracing the hash marks and details and then using that as a sketch to extrude the features. It is a simplified version but it looks decent.