Watermark on e drawingsheet

Hi,

I am looking a way to put a watermark on an drawing. Not via a PDF file but
directly on the
drawing. I tryed to insert a BMP (set to back) into the drawing but only the
dimension are on the front, the
drwaing himzelf still at the back and the BMP "run" above it so that I can't
see some lines of the drawing.

Can somebody help me ?

Fred.

 

Not sure it will help, but your printer driver might be able to do it (ours
do)

HIH

JMB

 

I had a similar problem. I needed to put "DRAFT" on my drawings as a water
mark. What I did was to create a new "part" that was simply a 2-D sketch of
the word "DRAFT". I then inserted a view of the part into the drawing. If
you need to put an image into your drawing, I don't know what to do.

 

you might try to put the image on the sheet format (titleblock) that way
the image will always be behind everything on the sheet. Test it & let us
know if that works... If it does I would recommend creating separate
drawing temples for each size called DraftA, DraftB, ectt... that way all
you have to do is replace one template with another when you want to show a
drawing as draft or not...

Hope this helps
Steve tietz

 

It can be done and SW2005 does it automatically for :
1) "If you print a lightweight drawing when it is out of synchronization
with its model, the drawing prints with a watermark:"



SolidWorks Lightweight drawing - Out-of-Date Print

2)

When a Detached drawing is out of sync with its model, it prints with a
watermark that states:

SolidWorks Detached drawing - Out-of-Sync Print

 

I have made a sheet format with a water mark on it. All you have to do is
edit the sheet format and put a new layer on it called "Water Mark" then
place the text all over the drawing in a very light grey in the watermark
layer then save the sheet format. When you don't want the water mark to show
just turn off the layer and the water mark will not show.