Inventor Images help

I was wondering if you could possibly take an image (a logo perhaps?) and place it on a part in inventor then just extrude it? if so any help would be awesome. I dont think you can but i will ask.

You can use the emboss or decal features.

Emboss/engrave will only work for sketches or text made with the text sketch tool.

To simply put the image onto a part, decal will let you add bitmap (.bmp) images to a part. Inventor Help says .doc and .xls can be used as well, but I don’t know how that works.

If you want to extrude/emboss the image or create features based on the image, you’ll probably have to approximate or reconstruct the image with sketch geometry, or place a decal and trace it with a sketch.

No it’s not possible. Like said above, you would have to recreate the images on a sketch and extrude them to how you see fit.

I’ve not touched Inventor in years, but perhaps it’s possible to import vector-based art into the sketch environment?

Dylan,

Have you tried posting this question on the Autodesk discussion group?

Try here.

I’m pretty sure it’s not possible to base an extrusion or other sketch-based feature off of a separate image, but worldbringer’s idea of inserting the image and then tracing it by hand onto a sketch is certainly possbile.