Dimensioning JPEG In Drawing Files
Dimensioning JPEG In Drawing Files
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I'm sure this has been discussed before....
1. You're provided a complex logo from your customer.
2. Logo must be dimension on drawing to show basic dimensions, location, letter height, and orientation.
How do you added dimesions to a graphic in drawings? This logo is too complicated to engrave on part surface with SW tools.
B. Lail
1. You're provided a complex logo from your customer.
2. Logo must be dimension on drawing to show basic dimensions, location, letter height, and orientation.
How do you added dimesions to a graphic in drawings? This logo is too complicated to engrave on part surface with SW tools.
B. Lail 





RE: Dimensioning JPEG In Drawing Files
Hijaak Pro has some raster-do-vector capability (i.e. JPEG to DXF), and it doesn't cost that much.
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I do not think anybody does this with logos. Logos usually are laid out in something like Adobe Illustrator, by an artist. If you have something you can apply dimensions to, it probably looks like hell.
Pass the artwork around as a scale model. If you are doing a silkscreen, your silkscreen shops probably has Illustrator, and there is no file translation. Illustrator outputs scale DXF, although making this into a SolidWorks solid model can be a nightmare. SolidWorks does not like Illustrator's curved polylines.
Failing all that, ASME Y14.5M-1994 has instructions for dimensioning and tolerancing curved edges. Depending on the logo, this could be very ugly. Tell your boss how long you expect it to take. :)
JHG
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Silkscreening isn't bad. But was are sending a cylinder out for laser engraving with the customes logo. Short of a good solution, we'll fake it somehow.
RE: Dimensioning JPEG In Drawing Files
One more thought.
On another vector graphics program, not SolidWorks, I inserted a JPEG, then I traced over it to create an accurate outline. I have done this a couple of times to get a conversion between from bitmap to vector graphics.
If I do this where I work, with our corporate logo, our graphics department will kill me. Possibly, your company and customer do not care whether or not the logo is absolutely perfect, but I would not bet on it.
JHG
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Thanks,
Chris
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You can apply it as a texture also.
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Basically, Start a sketch, select a face, then Tools > Sketch tools > Sketch picture, select picture, Open, then place & resize to suit.
Details can be found in the Help file.
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