Chapter 6: Getting More from Your Sketches
Tutorial: Controlling Pictures, Text,
Colors, and Styles
This tutorial guides you through some of the miscellaneous functions in sketches, and shows you
what they are used for and how they are used. Follow these steps to learn how to control these
items:- Open a new part using a template with inches as units. Open a sketch on the Front
plane and draw a construction line starting from the origin 12 inches down (negative Y)
away from the Origin. - Insert a sketch picture in this sketch. Use Sketch Picture 1.tif from the
CD-ROM for Chapter 6. - Resize the image so that the endpoints of the construction line are near the centers
of the holes on the ends of the part. To move the image, just double-click it first, and
then drag it. To resize it, drag the corners. - In the Transparency panel of the Sketch Picture PropertyManager, select the
Eyedropper tool and click in the white background of the image. Make sure that the
color field next to the Eyedropper tool changes to white. - Slide the Transparency and Matching Tolerance sliders all the way to the right, or
type 1.00 in the number boxes. - Close the sketch, and rename it Sketch Image Front View.
- Put the image Sketch Picture 2.tif, also from the CD-ROM, in a sketch on the
Right plane, and resize it to fit with the first image. Center it symmetrically about the
Origin. Also, set the transparency to the same setting as the first image. - Open a new sketch, also on the Front plane, and draw two circles to match the
features on the ends. Extrude them using a Mid Plane extrusion to match the image in
the other direction (about 2.5 inches), as shown in Figure 6.19.
FIGURE 6.19
Using sketch pictures