Solidworks insertpicture series#

Using the tolerance slider you can adjust how well the trace conforms to your image. Notice in the above the deviation on the C, the K and the Arc are not satisfactory in this image. In this case, we know that the background is a constant White, so we used this colour selection: When you are ready you can then choose begin trace. Using either the selection tools (rectangular, freehand or polygon) you can designate specific areas for the tool to work on, or using the colour, you can select an area based on a specific RGB. To access the auto trace functionality click the next arrow within the property manager. Inserting is a better method than attaching because if the original image gets moved to a different location on your hard drive or network, and you’ve merely attached the image, your document will no longer show the picture. Once inserted, you can position and scale the image as required: In SOLIDWORKS Electrical, inserting a picture (rather than attaching one) requires the photo to be of type BMP or DIB. To help make sure the auto trace functionality works well, we have made sure that we have a clear contrast in colours, in this case black and white. Start a new sketch and go to Tools – Sketch Tools – Insert Sketch Picture and browse for your picture. To do this go to Tools – Add-ins and make sure it is ticked under Active Add-ins:

Solidworks insertpicture series#

Due to the nature of this tool it works best for images such as logos that will have a clear contrast in colours.Ĭarrying on from the previous blog entry in this series our objective is to emboss the Cadtek logo onto the mannequin.įirst of all make sure you have the Auto Trace add-in Enabled. The Auto Trace add-in allows you to automatically trace a picture based on areas or colours and create vector data. This time we will take a look at automating this using the Auto Trace add-in. In the previous Score with SOLIDWORKS blog entry we looked at using a sketch picture to manually draw around and create our features from.