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Can we import a jpg or bmp into ProE for tracing and getting a design started?

DavidFrancis
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Can we import a jpg or bmp into ProE for tracing and getting a design started?

WF 4 M160

David T. Francis


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Import it as a trace sketch in ISDX ie Insert > Style > Styling > Trace
Sketch.



Regards



Iain



mjenkins
5-Regular Member
(To:DavidFrancis)

Open the picture in Photoshop or GIMP (Free version).


Apply Edge Detect filter.


Save picture as a pdfand upload to:


http://www.pdftodxf.com/

In Reply to David Francis:



WF 4 M160

David T. Francis







Keep in mind that Trace Sketch is not available without ISDX until Creo 1.0.



Tim McLellan
Mobius Innovation and Development, Inc.

Crop the image to the edges of the item. Create a surface as large as the item and make the surface match the width and height. Place the image using a decal texture via a color.

This is useful for place-holders as well. Rather than model all the keys on a keyboard, just place a photo of the keys on a keyboard shape.

Dave S.

Here's a quick tutorial I put on google docs a while back. It describes David's method in more detail.


https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0ATkbvHms-NVdZGtuMzJmZ180NDNnOTRrZjZnMw&hl=en_US&authkey=CMiv1OYJ



Regards,
Matt

For people not having ISDX the workaround would be to create a planar surface and map the image on the Surface via "Colors & Appearances". Map the Appearance as a planar map. Create the Planar surface to scale and stretch the image to match the edges of the Surface.

But TraceSketch is the best option.

Kind regards,
Jb..

Jb, et-al,



While I had sent David this solution shortly after the question was posted
by him I did not copy the group. I was sort of expecting a summary posting
after the solutions were tested by David.



In any event my intention for the comment below, " Keep in mind that Trace
Sketch is not available without ISDX until Creo 1.0." was to add
clarification to Iain's (PTC's) post. While I think everyone really
appreciates any participation from anyone from PTC on the board it is
important we understand all the details. If anything, it gives non-ISDX
owners another reason to go to Creo. 🙂



For those who need the trace sketch functionality (dimensionally scale an
image) and do not have ISDX, I would suggest downloading Creo and give it a
try.



Cheers,

Tim McLellan
Mobius Innovation and Development, Inc.



In Reply to David Francis:



WF 4 M160

David T. Francis




Hello All,


I do intend on providing a summary, however, I am the administrator and am awaiting feedback from the user. I will also tell you that there have been dozens of responses to this and almost as many different techniques. I would caution that several of them seem to be from different versions.......

David T. Francis

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