Logo creation. 1

[ProEDesigner00]

Greetings.

I have developed a logo in tiff and giff files. I like how it looks now I want to take this image of letters and symbols and transpose it into a dxf file or what ever means to bring it into my title block in my drawing format files. I understand that some can d o this throughtranslating it to an Autocad import then export it as a dxf. I have r14 of autocad and use it very little when I tried this method I get a translated file however it is just a image block with nothing in it.

Also my giff and tiff files are "filled" in Do I need to make a "wire frame" of the letters then export them into some dxf translation and do a fill in Pro/E later on?

I would appreciate some ideas on how to do this.

Thanks in advance

Norb.

 

[FrenchCAD]

Maybe you could try doing this with Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. Both should have some addin to allow this kind of conversion

Cyril Guichard
Mechanical Engineer

 

[ProEDesigner00]

HI Frenchcad

I will look at this in more detail. I am not much of a user of these types of programs but I think its about time I figure it out. Thanks.

Norb.

 

[degeneratesegment]

The 2 best programs to do this (in my opinion, at least) are Illustrator and Streamline, both by Adobe. I've used them to generate DXF files before with good results.

Now this software isn't too common in engineering departments, but I have the convenience of living with a graphic designer It's somewhat hit and miss, depending on the complexity of the picture inputted, but we've gotten some pretty decent results, even from a scanned image.

Chrs,

Mark

 

[smedley]

if you have a copy of illustrator it'll do it seamlessly
you can also open up pdf files and export as dxf
cheers

 

[JBFJR]

We use adobe illistrator for this kind of stuff, every day.

As the others say, it works seemlessly with one exception.
The scale will be about 50 times bigger.
We just live with the hicup and scal it back down once I am in Pro/e world.

After that create a sketch, give it some depth and make a prodigy and you will have a good desk ornament.


JOSE FIGUEROA JR.

 

[degeneratesegment]

Here's how it is done...

The image file (JPG, BMP, whatever) was loaded first into Photoshop and converted to a TIFF file...

Then this TIFF was brought into Adobe Streamline, and converted to vectors..

Illustrator has a similar functionality (as does photoshop) but Streamline offers the best toolset for vector conversions. The vectors were saved as an *.AI (Illustrator) file.

After this, the file was opened in Illustrator and simply saved as a DXF. The DXF was imported into Pro/E into a drawing file and scaled down to size...

Now, a note on this process. Norb's logo was a clearly defined Black on White logo. Actually it was pretty easy to convert. If anyone tries to convert images with colour gradients (i.e. fade from white to black), the amount of work in cleaning up the original file increases ten-fold.

I hope this was helpful. Full credit to my roommate on this. She's the graphic designer who originally made this work for me last year, and explained the process to me (and let me do all of this on her Mac!).

Regards,

Mark

 

[ProEDesigner00]

Ok Now once I got it into Pro/E on my part I then had the lborous part of cleaning the file up and making the multiples of vectors into "stream lined" 2-d entities in Pro. I was sure to trim each intersection to make complete lops so when I cross hatched the logo to make it look filled again I would have sucess. This cross hatch then needed cleaned up and trimed back to the "borber" so to make the edges clean looking. again Thanks Mark.

 

[JBFJR]

To make the end product even cleaner.

In the part mode, I put the import data on a layer.
I create a styled curve and sketche over the imported data.
A person well versed in the style features can do something like this in a few minutes. I will then shut off the import data to see how the sketch looks. After I verify the new data I will delete the imported data. As a result the new styled feature has very few entities. I then import this data into a drawing and your logo will have a very clean apprearance and could be modified very easy in the future. I often use this method for sketches from our artists who want to turn their art into 3D items that they want to market. It works excelent in your 2-d applications as well.

JOSE FIGUEROA JR.

 

[ProEDesigner00]

Jose

Very interesting concept. I ment to say that I opened it in a drawing and cleaned up the lines as descriped I then made it into a symbol and am using it in my title block. I am going to try your method so i have a 3-d image of this and might play around with some images to make some sort of animated giff file for my web page. I wil experiement. Thanks

Norb.