Realtime Silkscreen on Parts help

Hi

I routinely need to add quite a bit of text onto parts to simulate the
silkscreen. I need these to be visible all of the time not just when
rendering so can't use a decal. The artwork files are originally created in
Coreldraw, and I can't recreate it in solidworks. I tried converted the
original coreldraw file to an autocad dwg, but the text is all outlines, so
I hatch that and import in. the problem is, that it is very sloooow to
import and manipulate, understandably I guess, though solidworks importing
ability seems a little flakey IMHO.
Next I stumbled upon the insert/sketch/picture which works great, and is
dead quick, however... and this is my question......

The picture ALWAYS appears on top of all of the features, regardless of
where it sits in the tree. This means for instance, any holes get covered
etc. I want to check for any clashing text etc, but can't see an easy way to
do this.

Is it possible to have transparent areas on sketch pictures? Is there a
better way?

thanks for the help

Paul

 

Well, I have no help for you save to say, BOY-O-BOY are you going to be
happy with SW2006!

Muggs

 

I guess as a work around for the transparent holes you could add
"posts" though the holes as seperate bodies and suppress and resolve
those bodies as needed.

KM

 

Oh man, you can't leave it like that! don't be dangling those
carrots.. why exactly?, what new features are added?

rt

 

At SWW (SolidWorks World) they showed a little of what's comming in SW2006,
and one of the things is the ability to drag bitmap images right onto the
model faces, and the decal wraps right to the surface acrross holes and all,
it's very cool.

Read a great writeup of SWW by Wayne Tifany here:
http://kcswug.com/documents/SolidWorks World 2005.pdf

Muggs

 

???
At SWW they just drug it into the graphics area onto the face of a drill.

Muggs

 

cool thanks, that sounds very nice.
Better keep up the maintenance payments ;-)