Inserting pictures - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

- [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.