topic Re: Transparent background / sheet in 2d drawing (idw) in Inventor Forum

Transparent background / sheet in 2d drawing (idw)

Anonymous — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:20:33 GMT

Hi,

Does anyone know if it is posible to make the colour of the sheet in a 2d inventor drawing (idw) transparent?

I know I can change the colour under tools > Document settings > sheet - but I can´´t figure out how to make it transparent - if it is possible`?

(I want to export the drawing to a png file afterwards)

thanks in advance,

KBE

Re: Transparent background / sheet in 2d drawing (idw)

mdavis22569 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 12:27:58 GMT

I've never seen that ... I've changed them to white to help adjust things in Photoshop. But a quick work around could be savining/opening it in Autocad...

Re: Transparent background / sheet in 2d drawing (idw)

Daniel248 — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:48:26 GMT

With the Drawing File open, go to 'Save Copy As' > select 'PNG' from 'Save as type', click 'Options' and put a resolution value in the X OR Y (such as Y = 1080), then, click 'Save'.

Then, using any photo editor (Gimp is free) change the creamy background of your newly created drawing picture to transparent.

Re: Transparent background / sheet in 2d drawing (idw)

Curtis_W — Mon, 21 Dec 2015 14:54:36 GMT

Some links that might help for doing this in GIMP:

http://docs.gimp.org/en/plug-in-colortoalpha.html

http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/6449/add-transparency-to-an-existing-png