Picture (decal) on a surface 1

[Akesson]

Hi,

Anyone who knows how to project a picure (decal) on a surface in ProE 2001?
(The picture could be a jpg, tiff, ai or similar)

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Akesson

1. Scan the decal. Save as decal.bmp file.
2. You may want to bring into adobe PhotoShop and crop and remove area outside decal that is not square. SAVE File.
3. Rename files to a decal.tx3 extension
4. Move the file to this location:
C:\ptc\proe2001\graphic-library\textures\ or where your textures are dir is located.

5. In ProE under View model setup Colors and Appearance, add a new color, modify and the detail tab. Under this tab click the Map button, inside the folder ture-files pick the decal # (i.e. decal.tx3). Pick the surface of the Proe Model to place this, you may have to position and resize the picture to fit.
6. Save ProE model file.

Tofflemire

 

[Akesson]

Hi Tofflemire!

Thanks for the help.

 

[Tofflemire]

Hi Akesson

Just a note, if you have other users, they will not get this to show up unless they have the decal.tx3 file in there texture dir. The way we handle this is, we have a common dir and a batch file (when you start Proe) that loads files that people put in this common dir.

Tofflemire

 

[Akesson]

Thanks,

I've to look in to a that solution.

How do you handle decals on drawings (as I understand using "Color and Appearnce"-methodology" the decal is'nt visible on drawing)?

/Akesson

 

[degeneratesegment]

Hi Akesson,

You need your decal in a format that is easy to work with in the drawing. What it sounds like you need is to make a drawing symbol showing your decal.

You COULD insert the scan of the decal as an image and place it in your drawing as an object, but that is likely going to create more problems than it will solve. Having the file stored as a vector image and as a symbol ensures that you can reuse this data over and over both on drawings and on models.

If you already have the decal in a CAD format (iges or dxf, for example) or even as a vector image (many print shops use *.ai files from Illustrator) then half your work is done.

Under Format ==> Symbol gallery in drawing mode, you can create a symbol by importing the decal using Insert ==> Shared Data->From file.

If you don't have the file as Vectors (like a JPG or BMP), you should convert it. Illustrator has limited capabilities in this respect. Streamline is probably the best solution, but buying it and learning it may not be worthwhile for your application. Look up your local graphic design firms and see who can create vector files from your images. We've used these services to scan in old engineering drawings and then build 3D models from the vector files, and the quality was great.

Hope this helps..

All the best

Mark