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In The Machine is the official blog of the Inventor Product Management Team. It is a way for us to share Inventor news, interesting information about successful Inventor customers and partners as well as tips and tricks. From time to time we’ll also use the blog to solicit feedback from users via surveys. This blog is hosted by Garin Gardiner our Technical Marketing Manager.
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Add more to your model
December 15, 2008, 12:57 PM Garin Gardiner
Images are great to be able to add to your model to make it look a little nicer and add realistic detail although at times I am guessing you need to add more than images. If you need to add a lot of text information to your model for things like specifications or assembly instructions, you may want to insert a MS Word or Excel document. Using the standard Insert image work flow, you can insert both an Excel or Word document as well as many other formats.
First, open a model you want to insert a document into and create a sketch that will allow you to insert it into your model. You can then select Insert Image from the 2D Sketch Panel. From the drop-down you can select from a number of file formats such as Excel and Word.
Here is an image of Word document that I want to embed into a motor to add specifications similar to a decal I might add to the real motor.
Once you have selected a Word or Excel file, you can insert it into the sketch and scale/position it where you want.
If you want to embed this image into the model similar to a sticker you can then use the Decal Feature from the Part Feature Panel to wrap it to a face. Select the Decal Feature then select the image and face you want it to wrap to.
You can then select OK and voila!
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December 17, 2008 12:01 PM Anderson Mattos
Garin, Thanks for the tip. I have a question. Is this feature associative with the file? I mean if the information on Excel or Word document is updated, this changes will be reflecte on the model as well? Thanks and Happy Holidays!!! Anderson V. Mattos
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December 18, 2008 02:57 AM Filipe Garcia
Good tip butt when i put images the back of them turns black, if white or if it's a gif with no back, inventor turns the back of the imagem black... any suggestion, Thanks
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December 19, 2008 03:20 PM Garin Gardiner
It is a static image that isnt linked to the file if the XLS get changes - that would be cool. As for Flipe's question - you might make sure that the OS is defaulting the image type such as BMP or JPG to use the MS Paint program and see if that helps.
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