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Artwork resource manager

Note! This function requires an AutomArt 2Design license.
In the version without an AutomArt 2Design license, the artwork can be imported.

To import an artwork on a pattern, access the Garment mode, and select the Artwork resource manager function from the specific toolbar; then, click on the Import new button. In the pop-up dialog window, opt for bringing the artwork into the model, or for keeping it external, as a link. The option to keep the file external is checked by default.

Clicking on Artwork resource manager allows displaying the Digital decoration manager window.

The Digital decoration manager window contains the following zones:

the list with the graphical resources from the model;
the preview area of the selected resource.

The following graphical resource formats can be imported: *.ai *.pdf, *.svg, *.bmp. To import a graphical resource into the model, click on the

icon, and the resource is displayed in the list with graphical resources that contain the following information:

Name – here is displayed the graphical resource name;
Alias – here can be assigned a new name for the imported graphical resource;
Status – the graphical resource status:
Used in model – if the resource is used in the current model;
Not used in model – if the resource in not used in the current model;
Path on disk – is displayed the path on the disk where can be found the graphical resource. The path is displayed only when the Keep external resource link option is used.
Size – here is displayed the graphical resource dimension;
Dimension – here are displayed the graphical resource width and height dimensions.

A resource that is selected from the graphical resource list is displayed in the preview area, where its anchor position can be changed.

To delete a graphical resource, click on the

icon after having selected the graphical resource from the list, and, depending on its status, a warning message is displayed or not, as follows:

for the Used in model status, the message below is displayed:

If the Delete button is clicked on, the graphical resource is removed from the list and from the model.
If the Quit button is clicked on, the graphical resources are not removed neither from the model nor from the list.

For the Not used in model status no warning message is displayed, and the graphical resource is removed from the list.

After the import of the artwork in the Import artwork window, it is displayed in the preview area with an anchor placed at the center of the resource. The anchor is rendered, in this window, through a red dot.

On the artwork, snap points are automatically created at the center, in the corners of the resource’s rectangle and at the midpoint of the sides of the latter. Snap points are also displayed on the main points of the shapes from which the artwork was created.