Hello,
I'm trying to put hour company logo in the command manager, on the right.
I download an Roaster from solidworks what is working, but our own logo does not show up in the corner.
I dont know why, can anyone help me.
I made a Bmp file 32 bit, 275 x 75 pixels
Regards Norman.
Hello Scot,
That was the link were i found it to.
But i made an own BMP file, but that is not working.
I dont know why.
regards Norman.
Ok, When I get time I will give it a try myself and if I have success I will let you know what I did
to do it.
Same for me also, the car logo works but the logo i made does not. Whats the deal?
Somebody has shared the method of changing the corner logo but I can't find it right now
But you might want to try this: How To: Change the SolidWorks Splash Screen (or any other image)
BTW the script mentioned in the zip file will only work for 2008, so for any other version you need to change 2008 to your current version.
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 2008\General]
"Enable Custom CmdMgr Logo"=dword:00000001
Change to
Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\SolidWorks\SolidWorks 20XX\General]
"Enable Custom CmdMgr Logo"=dword:00000001
XX denotes the version.
I tried that download too although I couldn't get it to work either using the car and also my companies logo.
Works for me in 2009:
As Deepak said, make sure you are editing the proper registry entry, either manually, or by editing the .reg file in the download. Image size doesn't seem to matter, but SW will crop it, so you may need to resize to get things looking right.
Jim S.
Hello Jim,
I edit the reg file and change the 2008 into 2012, the car works for me, but the Virupa logo does not.
Can you please sent me the Bmp you put in!
Regards Norman
OK well I finally got it to work although I can't get my companies logo in there and it's actually smaller in KB.
Ok well I relized that my companies bit depth is 24 and the car's is 32 any idea on how to change this?
Nathan,
Photoshop, does the work.
Norman.
Having never done this before, does anyone know if this setting can be saved so you don't have to fusts
with the registry everytime you load a new version?
Yes, just change those two reg file in that zip file.
Hello Deepak,
I dit that right away but only the car works, when i make a image myself, 32 bit i isn't working?
And i see that it works by Jim Sculley.
Why isnt it working with me??
Norman.
Seems like it works almost although it's not cropping; then when I got to crop it, it changes to a 24bit depth. It seems so simple but it doesn't like me.
If anyone had got an idea let me know.
Nathan,
What version of Solidworks do you have?
We work with 2012, and i dont get it to work?
When i open the original car file and save it again into a 32 bit bmp, it isn't working anymore??
Only the original file works for me, i dont know why??
Well I can't get it to work on 2011 I put the car in and it works then copy and paste this file in and it doens't although it worked when the image was huge.
yeah I only got it to work about half with my companies image.
I even got our marketing guy that has a mac to do the image but still didn't work...???
Ok well I got it don't really understand why all I did was re-size my company image to same # of pixels that the default car is and it work although I got it to work before it just wan't sized correctly....
I did a 'Save As' on your image from my browser. That image did not work. I opened it in GIMP (free Photoshop-like program), did a save as making sure it was 32 bit and then it worked. Here is the working image:
I suspect your image was 24-bit. The extra 8 bits are for the alpha (transparency) channel. Since your image doesn't have any transparency, your image program may be saving it as 24 bit.
Jim S.
Hello,
I get our company logo from Jim Scrulley, and he saved it in Gimp.
It works, maybe that is the solution, save the bmp with Gimp?
Norman.
I have Gimp v2.6.11 windows 7 ultimate 64 bit SW 2012....no go for me. Only the car logo works even when i change my own custom logo to the same pixel count.
I had the same problem too cause everytime I decreased the size to the same number of pixels it would change it to 24 bit depth. 32 bit depth really is the key to this operation and of course SW doesn't resize it for you so that is a little trail and error too.
Hello Nathan,
Is this one working?
Norman
I have found a solution on my end. Gimp and Microsoft paint does not work for me, then I tried a free program called Serif Photo Plus Starter Edition and it works consistently on any photo I save in 32 bit BMP. So appearently something wasn't saved correctly using the other programs. So I believe the fix is try different photo editors untill you find one that plays nice with your computer and SW. HTH
Brian
Norman,
Welcome to the forum.
I too would like to know how to do this. On occation I has seen screen
shots from some that have done it, but never asked the question.
In doing some searching I found this link.
Let me know if it works.
http://labs.solidworks.com/Blog/post.aspx?id=15