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Description

The TechDraw Image tool inserts a bitmap image (PNG, TIFF, JPEG, etc.) from a file into the page as a view.

introduced in 1.0: The TechDraw View tool can also create an Image View.

Image inserted in the drawing page

Usage

1. If there are multiple drawing pages in the document: optionally activate the desired page by selecting it in the Tree view.
2. Select the TechDraw → TechDraw Views → Insert Bitmap Image option from the menu.
3. If there are multiple drawing pages in the document and you have not yet activated a page, the Page Chooser dialog box opens:
   1. Select the desired page.
   2. Press the OK button.
4. A file browser opens.
5. Select an image file.
6. An Image View is inserted.
7. Optionally change its DataScale property to adjust its size.

Properties

See also: Property editor.

An Image View, formally a TechDraw::DrawViewImage object, has the properties that are common to all View types. It also has the following additional properties:

Data

Image

• DataImage File (File): The file containing this bitmap.
• DataImage Included (FileIncluded): Embedded image file. System use only.
• DataWidth (Float): The width of the cropped image in mm. Only used if ViewCrop is true.
• DataHeight (Float): The height of the cropped image in mm. Idem.

View

Image

• ViewCrop (Bool): Crop the image to DataWidth x DataHeight.

Scripting

See also: Autogenerated API documentation and FreeCAD Scripting Basics.

The Image tool can be used in macros and from the Python console by using the following functions:

dvi = FreeCAD.ActiveDocument.addObject('TechDraw::DrawViewImage','TestImage')
rc = page.addView(dvi)
dvi.ImageFile = "pathToMy/imageFile.png"
dvi.Height = 200
dvi.Width  = 200

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