Watermark in drawing

hello,
I have a question on something I thought was going to be easy, but have
since found near impossible. I need to put a 'watermark' on my drawings. I
have tried using notes but am unable to change the text colour (without
changing the rest of the text) and pasting text from Word. I am trying to
put it into the sheet format. Can anyone help?

 

You can select the text and change it's colour OK - I have been doing it for
years - check out the help. Alternatively, you can put the watermark on
it's own layer and assign a colour for it (this way you can turn it on and
off). You could also make it a block so it is quick to insert into a
drawing.

Another way is to get your printer to add the watermark (many of the new
printers have this as a printing option).

Merry

 

print a watermark with another program first. Then send the sheet through s
second time for the drawing.....

 

Andrew,

The best solution I could think of would be to add the watermark to
your sheet format as you had alluded to originally. You can easily
create the watermark in another program and then save the image as
something like a bmp or jpeg. Next, go to your sheet format and
choose Insert...Object...from File... and then pick the image file
that you created. Then resize accordingly in SolidWorks. Save the
sheet format. You should have the image now on your custom sheet
format. You can eaily reload the sheet format on any older drawings
that were started with your new sheet format. I have put logos on
several of my sheet formats using a bitmap image inserted on the sheet
format. It has worked well for me, and is something the SolidWorks
has advertised in the past and shown in some training manuals that I
have seen. One of David and Marie Planchard's books on learning
SolidWorks has a good example on this. This capability has been in
the software for quite some time now. I'm kind of shocked that more
people don't know about it.

 

Andrew,

I start with empty drawing template. Layers are stored in the Drawing
Template.
1. Create a new layer named "Watermark" on an empty Drawing Template.
Save the empty Drawing Template. Example: Template-A-Empty.

2. Insert your existing Sheet Format with no watermark. Select the
Watermark Layer to be your current layer. Right-click Edit Sheet
Format.

3. Select Insert, Object. Browse and select your watermark picture
file.

4. Utilize the drag handles to size your picture.

5. Right-click Edit Sheet. Change your layer back to your default.
Do not save with the Watermark layer selected for all you dimensions
will be inserted onto this layer.

6. Important - Save both the Sheet Format and the Drawing Template.
Save the Sheet Format with the File, Save Sheet Format option.
Example: Enter Sheet-Format-A-Watermark.
7. Save the Drawing Template with File, Save As. Select Templates
from the Files of type list. Example: Enter
Template-A-Format-Watermark.

8. Now you can use the same empty Drawing Template for other sizes.
Open the empty drawing template with no sheet format. Right-click
Properties and change the paper size to B. The Layers and other
Document Property setting will be save. Save this template as
Template-B-Empty.


9. Repeat for the B size Sheet Format.

Regards, Marie

 

Thanks all for your replies.
I have had luck changing the note colour so it comes out almost transparent,
but it is still printing over the top of drawing views. I have the same
problem when
I insert bitmaps and jpegs. Does anyone know how to order these items to the
background?
I am also not keen on seeing the black outline around the inserted file. I
am at a disadvantage
because I can only use SolidWorks at work, and don't get a chance
to experiment as much as I like!