{"id":1291,"date":"2013-08-20T16:10:07","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T15:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1291"},"modified":"2015-11-04T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T11:51:38","slug":"solidworks-2014-sneak-peek-sketch-picture-scale-tool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/2013\/08\/solidworks-2014-sneak-peek-sketch-picture-scale-tool\/","title":{"rendered":"SolidWorks 2014 Sneak Peek: Sketch Picture Scale Tool"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SolidWorks 2014 will be officially unveiled on September 9, and while you\u2019re waiting for the big reveal, we\u2019re going to give you a few peeks at some of the new features.<!--?xml:namespace prefix = \"o\" ns = \"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\" \/--><\/p>\n<p>Many products start as concept sketches, either hand-drawn or with other digital rendering tools.\u00a0 However, images do not contain to-scale information, which can lead to confusion when using them for building geometry. Users must determine if the image is out of scale, and if so, how far out of scale. The Sketch Picture Scale Tool makes it easy to properly scale the size and position of images inserted into a sketch, saving significant amounts of time and frustration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SW2014_picture_scale.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-1292\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SW2014_picture_scale-1024x576.png\" alt=\"SW2014_picture_scale\" width=\"650\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SW2014_picture_scale-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SW2014_picture_scale-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/SW2014_picture_scale.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This new tool allows users to make use of known reference points in the image, which often provide an understanding of size.\u00a0 Using these known points, users simply enter the corresponding value\u2013the image resizes accordingly.\u00a0 Likewise, rotation of the image is provided within the same tool, to capture proper orientation of the sketch.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Matthew West, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2013\/08\/solidworks-2014-sneak-peek-sketch-picture-scale-tool.html\" target=\"_blank\">SolidWorks Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mkt.solidworks.com\/emarketing_enu\/start.swe?SWECmd=InvokeMethod&amp;SWEMethod=StartSS&amp;SWEView=URLRouter&amp;SWEApplet=SSRoute&amp;SWENargs=SSId=1-12QAQ0H,SSName=REP+ENG+International+Mechanism+Design+Buyer's+Guide,SSLC=,SSCC=,CID=1-1VOY0AL,OID=1-12RQSRK,COID=1-1VOY0AM,PRO=1-NKZ7N\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Mechanism_BuyersGuide_600x90.png\" alt=\"Mechanism_BuyersGuide_600x90\" width=\"600\" height=\"90\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SolidWorks 2014 will be officially unveiled on September 9, and while you\u2019re waiting for the big reveal, we\u2019re going to give you a few peeks at some of the new&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1292,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[67,25,68],"class_list":["post-1291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-solidworks","tag-67","tag-solidworks-2","tag-solidworks-2014"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1291"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3822,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1291\/revisions\/3822"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidapps.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}