style design profile

[iron72]

Hello.
I should make a profile that as style is equal to a drawing on a sheet of paper.
I practically scanned this design and turned it into a jpg file.
Now I should apply this picture of the drawing inside a scketcher so that I can follow the profile with spline.
Does anyone have any ideas?
Thank you.

 

[Ezio Olivato]

import your jpg file, and line it up with the spline.

 

[iron72]

Hello olive grove.
You could give me the procedure to do what you told me.
because I practically don't have the rendering environment and so I'm trying to apply the jpg as a material. and then how do I insert a jpg into the material?
Thank you, I hope I've been clear.

 

[Ezio Olivato]

hi, simply insert the image into your drawing file and rebuild the profile. "Insert image from external reference" is the command that allows you to view your drawing sheet jpg.
I don't understand what purpose you would like to get a material from your jpg, but in any case you go under material/new material and from them choose your jpg file as material!

 

[iron72]

Thanks olive oil, it works correctly :finger:
but now the sketcher I have to resize it to the real measures, I already have a multiplication factor only that I have to give the spline rays to the straights that make up my sketcher.
I thought of making a scale multiplied a x factor.
But what is the command?
Thanks again.

 

[alexfunk]

I would use sketch tracer: once imported the image, imposed the desired size
Hello alexfunk

 

[marcofa]

I can't find the command "insert image from external reference" in the command list. Can you be more precise, please?
Mar

 

[Ezio Olivato]

maybe depends on the autocad version? What do you use?

 

[AntonioV]

maybe depends on the autocad version? What do you use?

use the autocad version "katia", limited edition.. .

I think you do first to vectorize the jpeg sketch with free wintopo, save as .dxf and import it into catia.

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[marcofa]

I don't understand anything. Are we talking about catia v5 or autocad?
It seems to me that in the opening post we were in catia environment and we wanted to import a jpeg file into the sketcher and then be able to "recalcate" it with a spline.
Would you please be clearer?
Mar

 

[AntonioV]

Are we talking about catia v5 or autocad?

I think it's a negligible detail, because the concept is universal.

Here we talk about how to bring a sketch from paper to cad: for someone it's easier to recalculate by hand the bitmap, for me it's better to do it by a dedicated program.

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