Decal management could need some improvement (development idea)

[veikko.vierola]

Problem:

It is not possible to import decal in specific size and/or stretch the decal automatically to fill the area of the face according to face borders. It is very difficult to adjust decal size accurately, because you don't know when the decal has stretched over the face and so on. Also the decal sizing (scaling) always changes both edges of the image.

This new function would have a lot of benefits:

You could scan a blueprint or a photo, crop the image to some known size for example 2950px x 1450px according to the blueprint or image known real life dimensions (ratio). Then you could create an object in Fusion, make the face size for example 295mm x 145mm. Then you could insert the decal image to that face and tell to Fusion that stretch the decal in to the selected face. 

Other option could be that you could set the import size of the decal in millimetres, then it would be exactly in the size you want it to be on the face

In the PIC 1 picture has been taken from tile. The real life size of the image is known.

In PIC 2 the image is imported to Fusion as decal and holes to 295mm x 145mm plate has been cut

according to the positions of the hoses in the image.

If the adjusting and stretching would be automated this process would be 100x faster and much more accurate.

I hope Autodesk development team could consider this automatic or manual size determination of decals in the software.

[Phil.E]

Thanks for the detailed input. I've added it to the improvement story for Decals. (FUS-48728)