Inserting "Sketch Picture" with tranaprent backgroud?

Hello,


I am reverse engineering a forged part and have two sources of design:
the actual part and some drawings.



I have taken photos of the part, made the background white and inserted
them in SW2006 using “Sketch Picture” and scaled and positioned it so it
overlaps the part I am working on.

I have also scanned the drawings and done a similar thing.



I know I can make the SW model transparent as well as the Sketch
Pictures transparent, but what I want to know is if you can get SW2006
to process a GIF or TIFF file that has a transparent background built
into it? I have tried it but the transparent background appears black
in SW2006 default settings. Maybe there is a SW viewport background
setting that may allow transparency in GIF/TIFF files to be processed
correctly. Anyone?


Cheers



Bull

 

REPOST WITH LAZY TYPING ERRORS CORERCTED

Hello,


I am reverse engineering a forged part and have two sources of design:
the actual part and some drawings.

I have taken photos of the part, made the background white and inserted
them in SW2006 using “Sketch Picture” and scaled and positioned it so it
overlaps the part I am working on.

I have also scanned the drawings and done a similar thing.

I know I can make the SW model transparent as well as the Sketch
Pictures transparent, but what I want to know is if you can get SW2006
to process a GIF or TIFF file that has a transparent background built
into it? I have tried it but the transparent background appears black
in SW2006 default settings. Maybe there is a SW viewport background
setting that may allow transparency in GIF/TIFF files to be processed
correctly. Anyone?

Cheers

Bull

 

Save the image out as a separate jpeg or gif, and use "User defined
transparency" This uses the channel as a transparency

 

AHHH!!! I must be blind. How did I miss all those transparency
options??!!
I had only remembered the "User defined" option, but on looking again,
there is an option in the "Sketch Picture" dialog box called "From
File".

Now that is what makes the transparency layer IN the image file
transparent in SW. This is such a handy feature! Go SW!

Thanks for pointing out the bleeding obvious to the bleeding stupid.

Bullman

 

Always nice to see <G>.

 

You would probably be better off measuirng the part .... and
remembering that designers often like nice numbers in
whatever system (inch or metric) that they are using.