- [Narrator] Customizing our title block is a great way
to set ourselves up for the future work we have to do
and it also gives us a professional template
that we can rely on
when we're creating multiple drawings
and sending stuff out to vendors.
In this video,
I'm going to focus on inserting a picture
into my title block
so that I can display my company information
which is something you might want to do
to jazz up your drawing template a little bit.
You can also use a picture to be inserted
and then traced,
if you want to trace
and create other geometry,
just like you would inside of Solid Works part file
or Solid Works assembly.
In a later video,
I use the insert picture to create a floor plan,
actually,
a layout,
and you can go ahead
and trace this
just using sketch geometry after it's inserted.
You can put it into an empty drawing view.
Whatever you want to do,
you've got a lot of options,
but let's go ahead
and update this title block.
Whenever we do anything to our title block in our drawing,
we typically want to right click
and say edit sheet format.
This is where we actually go to the layer
where all the title block editing is done.
You can go in
and edit the various variables that are being tracked
inside of all of these annotations.
We're going to talk about that in the next video.
But for right now,
all I want to do is insert a picture right here
that describes my company.
So with that said,
I'm going to go up to insert,
hit picture,
I've already navigated to the location
where I have my company's icon
or imagery,
then I go ahead
and select that
and say open.
Now,
you'll notice it's not right in front of me.
By default,
when you insert a sketch picture into a drawing,
it goes to the zero zero position.
Just like when working inside of a Solid Works part model,
we have all of the same options that we have
for scaling.
The one that I like to focus on
is the transparency.
So if you go to user define,
drag this little dropper out
and select the white right here,
you can start adjusting the transparency.
Let me see if I can try that again,
didn't quite stick.
Sometimes it does,
sometimes it doesn't.
Zoom in.
Yes, here we go.
So every item that I grab,
you notice how when I click that on
and off,
it's selecting that color
and making it transparent?
So I'm trying to select the white in the background
and finally,
must have been a little bit of a graphics glitch,
when I click on that white in the background,
it selects it,
and you'll see that change over here.
Now I can change that transparency.
I'm going to go actually all the way to one
and now I've blanked out all of that white
in the background
and I just see the black of the image
which is really nice.
So now,
I'm going to go ahead
and click okay
and that accepts the picture.
I'm going to move this though.
So I'm going to lock the aspect ratio.
I'm going to enable the scale tool,
but it's not a great position.
Let's shrink it down a little bit.
I'm going to go ahead
and shrink that down
and now,
I might go ahead
and change my position manually
because I want to be kind of precise with this
and get it right in the right spot.
So I'm just going to use the XYZ icons to move it over.
You can manually drag it over as well,
but you can only do that
without having the transparency tool on
and I want to keep that transparency,
so I'm just going to use this to move it ever so precisely.
Let's go 13.65.
It's still a little bit too big,
so let's shrink it down a little bit
and that actually looks pretty good right there.
Now all I did again,
was just move it around by the XYZ
and that's driven by this bottom left hand point here.
I changed my transparency by selecting that white color
and making that transparent 100%.
I'm going to adjust that matching tolerance
back down to zero.
Hit okay
and now I've got my imagery in there for my company.
I've got it inside of my title block
and now go up to the top right-hand
and say
edit sheet,
because I want to go back to edit sheet,
and I'm good to go.
I've got my imagery in there
and if I want,
I can go to file,
save as,
and save this out as a drawing template
and I'll have that ready to go for future use.