How To Insert a Decal In SOLIDWORKS?

In today’s video, I will show you how you can project a decal (like a picture) on your 3D model in SOLIDWORKS. In this example, we will place an image of an iPhone display on an iPhone in SOLIDWORKS.

To project a decal on your SOLIDWORKS model you’ll need to enable PhotoView 360.

Go to: Tools > Add-Ins > PhotoView 360

Check PhotoView 360 in the menu.

Click OK

Select the surface where you want to project the Display image.

Click on PhotoView 360 in the upper menu bar and click on Edit Decal

Browse to your image

Click OK

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Click on the Mapping Menu

Go to the Size/Orientation box

Click on the “Fit width to selection” option. (You can also change the size of the image by dragging onto the green corner points) and drag the image over the display to cover the complete surface.

Click OK

That’s all!

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Cheers,

Jan

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AArti

11:26 am

This Excellent. Thanks for sharing…

Jan-Willem Zuyderduyn

8:59 pm

You arwe very welcome! 🙂

Simon Kimber

3:38 pm

I have been inserting images into my projects but the quality never looks good enough. I use Adobe Illustrator to create artwork & then print to PDF. These are then used for other purposes. I then crop the area I need for the decal & save it to JPG before adding it to my project.
Is there a better way to create an image so the quality is better?

Jan-Willem Zuyderduyn

3:59 pm

Hi Simon,

Thanks for your message. I know exactly what you mean. I personally save my Illustrator files as a DWG file. And I use this DWG file to import in SolidWorks. This way you have 2D sketch lines instead of a lowres JPG image.
Just go to File > Export DWG in Illustrator to save your Illustrator file as a DWG. Now open a SolidWorks Part and go to Insert > DXF / DWG to import your DWG into SolidWorks.

I only recommend JPG images for aesthetic purposes or for hand sketch blueprints.

Hope this helps!

Jan