Sketch insert image command issue

[evannfernandez]

I am attempting to insert an image into a sketch to be used as a decal, but it appears as a blank gray box. I created this image in Photoshop CS5 on my Mac Mountain Lion partition. I am running Inventor 2012 on my Windows 7 64-bit partition.

I appear to only have a problem with that specific image. All other images on my harddrive insert correctly. I have tried multiple file types (.jpg, .png, .gif, etc), but nothing has worked.

This is the only related post I am able to find: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/How-do-you-insert-a-jpeg-onto-a-Inventor-drawing/td-...

This is my personal laptop so I don't think it is a profile issue. Does anyone have any suggestions?

Thank you in advance.

Edit: It may be necessary to note that the image is white text with a transparent background. I wonder if that is the root of the problem.

[evannfernandez]

Hmm... Well, it appears that Inventor makes any white parts of images into that gray color. But what is worse is it assumes transparent parts of images to that gray color as well.

Does anyone know how I can get white text as a decal onto a part?

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi evannfernandez,

So if you try it with another image file does it work?

Also, there used to be an issue of this sort when the default program for *.bmp files was not MS Paint. You might look into that.

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[evannfernandez]

Thank you for the reply.

I defaulted all image files to MS Paint and I am still having the same problem.

In the attached image, the Nissan logo text and outline should be white, and its background should be transparent.

[Curtis_Waguespack · Accepted solution]

Hi evannfernandez,

If you edit the sketch and then right-click on the image, and choose Properties, you will see a Use Transparency option.

Does this get you the results you're after?

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[evannfernandez]

Aha! That did it!

Thank you very much.