Solidworks decal location?
Solidworks decal location?
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Can put a decal on a front panel overlay I'm working on, but the location (hash?) marks, which don't fall on the panel, disappear, so that I can't get it precisely positioned. I'll bet there's some simple trick for this.
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
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Cropping an image shouldn't be very difficult, even if you use a simple application to do so. In fact, if it's a simple crop, you could post your image (see FAQs) and I can probably do it myself with Photoshop and repost it cropped for you--it would probably take 30 seconds.
You can also look at image editors at snapfiles.com for some decent freeware applications to do this yourself.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Also, if the hash marks are outside of the surface, doesn't that indicate that they are either in the wrong place or that the image is too big?
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It bugs me if I have to crop on another program. Seems like a workaround as opposed to the right way. Particularly since I'm used to seein artwork of this style.
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Offset a plane in front of your decal's plane and put your hashmarks on that--so they won't get covered by the decal's image.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Solidworks decal location?
I thought of a really awkward trick, which is to modify the part temporarily to have little extra bits sticking off in the right places. But what a mess!
RE: Solidworks decal location?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Solidworks decal location?
In real life, how is the decal/artwork being applied to the physical face? Silk screen, sticky label, ????. How accurate does the location have to be?
Are there features in the decal which have to align with features in the panel? Hole for switch or pushbutton, etc? If there is, then use those for alignment.
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The hash marks are correctly placed. They're not especially pretty, so the custom for this type of artwork is to have them off the edge of the label you're making, but indicating how it lines up with the edges. When I say "decal", I mean the Solidworks decal function. This is an overlay that is then applied to a part. We want it to look right in the assembly.
I suppose I could ask for artwork with extra lines on it in places that will be cut off and punched out. Then, if I can't see the lines, it must be in the right place. But that's a mess and another pass, and is not customary.
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I'd suggest the image ought to be cropped to size/proportion already (what I always do myself--that way the hash marks are unnecessary, although I know what you mean by having hash marks--but that's usually for cutting printed matter). SolidWorks certainly cannot know where the image needs to be cropped, since it will assume the image you've got is what you want. Image-side issues are best solved with an image editing application (which SolidWorks certainly is not).
I don't understand why the hash marks appear in the image file, but not in SolidWorks as a decal. How is it that they are invisible? Are they beyond the surface you're applying the decal onto? If so, I would think some of the methods mentioned above would work with a pre-cropped image file. If not, are you using a mask or removing certain colors from appearing in the image when applying the decal?
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Rob Rodriguez CSWP
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