If you need to edit the decal click on the coloured ball in the Feature Manager Design Tree, followed by the Cylinder button which is for the decals. The book provides a introduction to the user interface, menus, toolbars, concepts and modeling techniques of SolidWorks to create parts, assemblies and drawings. You can of course roughly drag it into position.Īngle of decal relative to axies of model SolidWorks 2005 Tutorial is written to assist students, designers, engineers and professionals. These controls allow exact positioning vertically and horizontally on your model. This is a simple flat face so I will use the Projection option. By draging the decal around on the model we can also position it.įirstly we can select how we want the decal to be applied Projection is directly on the face but there is also Spherical and Cylindrical. We can now use the size and rotational controls to get the decal how we want on the model. The decal may not be the correct size and shape for your requirements but in the manager on the left are all of the controls you require.Īt the top are 3 tabs. Locate your decal and drag it onto the model. If your decal isn’t visible where you saved it in Decals, click on the refresh button at the top of the folder. In the Task Pane on the right of the screen is a coloured ball button.Ĭlick on this and select Decals from the entries. When you have located the folder simply give your decal a name and click on save. You can of course specify your own folder and point SOLIDWORKS at this. The default logo folder is where I am going to place mine and this can be found atĬ:\Program Files\SOLIDWORKS Corp\SOLIDWORKS\data\graphics\decals\Logos
This where you select the location of the logo file you want to add. This will show the path and a preview of the logo.Īssuming you do not require special masks because as with this one the cropping of the image is very close to the edges (I did this in an image editor), simply click on the Save Decal button.
This adds the Photoview 360 menu to SOLIDWORKS and we need to go this and the menu entry for Edit Decal.Ĭlick on the Browse button and locate the image you want to use using the usual Windows file browse window. Firstly we need to go to Options and Add-Ins to ensure it is on.
We need to convert the image into a P2D file and for this we need Photoview 360 which is the SOLIDWORKS rendering software. Now the decals have a format of their own which is a P2D file. We will use the old NT CADCAM logo as an example.Īlmost any file format will do such as a jpeg or png. I certainly was so I needed to create my own custom logos.įirstly we need an image to convert into a logo. SOLIDWORKS comes with some decals already included but these are very limiting, some can be seen here. It’s a bit like the good old water slide decals used in plastic model making. The process is actually quite simple: we drag a decal onto the model, position it and size it appropriately and we have our image on the model. Occasionally when solid modelling with SOLIDWORKS, we need to add graphics to our models.