Decals - On two surfaces? White around edge of decal? 1

[gandytable]

I am applying decals to a part using "Decal" in PhotoWorks. Or should I say attempting to.

One decal needs to be on two surfaces. One is planar and meets another that is slightly curved. "Decal" menu only allows me to pick one surface. Decal (TIFF image) appears on the surface I pick, but disappears at the boundary to the other. It will show on either one I pick, but not both. Is there a way to "wrap" the decal on the two surfaces?

Decal also disappears at a splitline that I made to show a sandblasted area for the decal, which is okay.

Also, I am applying another decal to a flat surface. It seems to work pretty well, but the decal is not the full size of the planar area. The part is originally red, but there is white past the edges of the decal to the tangent at the extent of the flat surface. I have tried to turn it red with appearance, but it will not change from white. Any suggestions here?

I searched the best that I could for the answers here before posting. It will be nice when the regular search for SolidWorks is working.

 

[rfus]

Select the two surfaces. Use delete face command. I tend not to use delete and fill because you can have more control over the fill and use constraint curves using surface fill. Go in and select the edges and do a surface fill and use constraints if need be. Knit the surfaces together if you want to go back to solids world. You will now have a singular surface and you can apply a decal to the whole thing (although I wouldn't recommend using this method for your final part, but you should get what you are looking for for a rendering/pic/edrawings). If I really need the decal on my part more often than not I will create it as an .0005 extrusion or wrap, although this can get big in file size.

For your second question, when in the property manager for decals, in the image tab you can apply a selective color mask. Use the eyedropper to select the color. One problem you can run into is that tiff and jpeg compressions use 8x8 probability algorithms to assign the color to arrays in the image. You will end up with RGB values in between your red and white, and it will be hard for you to eliminate all of these. The best thing you can do is when you save your decal do not apply compression to it.

Hope this helps.

RFUS

 

[SBaugh]

You can place a decal on more then one face!

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

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[SBaugh]

I would try to make a single decal to go over the entire area and adjust it to fit your part

Regards,

Scott Baugh, CSWP

http://www.scottjbaugh.com

faq731-376

 

[rfus]

Yes, you are right again, although I'm not giving you another star today. I knew that but I guess I was just telling gandytable how to make a singular surface and be able to use fit height and width to selection becuase under projection mapping selecting these boxes will not map the image accross multiple surfaces. guess you mentioned that as well in your follow up too.