Altium Designer 18.1.7

[ryanengineering]

Hello All, I am performing the finishing touches on a board and trying to add a logo, I did all of the steps that I have found on the net ( Convert to black and white, save as BMP ) copy and paste wont work, I also did the alternative method of placing object from file with no luck.... Any ideas out there? can someone that has luck with this convert for me? Thank you -Ryan

[maxpayne]

Hello All, I am performing the finishing touches on a board and trying to add a logo, I did all of the steps that I have found on the net ( Convert to black and white, save as BMP ) copy and paste wont work, I also did the alternative method of placing object from file with no luck.... Any ideas out there? can someone that has luck with this convert for me? Thank you -Ryan

You need to run attached delphi script to include a logo on the PCB.

[Psi]

The copy/paste thing needs to be done correctly.
Ya need to copy the image not the file and some programs don't conform to the correct copy/paste spec.
Also the only color that will import is 100% black, (0 red 0 blue 0 green).

MSPaint in Win10 works fine. 
Load any image into mspaint that has some 100% black in it, draw selection box around the area you want and click the 'copy' button.
Then paste into an Altium PCB document

[radar_macgyver]

You can import a DXF. My preferred method is to make a custom Truetype font and then just create a string object and use that font. Creating the font can be painful though.

[ajb]

MSPaint in Win10 works fine. 
Load any image into mspaint that has some 100% black in it, draw selection box around the area you want and click the 'copy' button.
Then paste into an Altium PCB document

That's kinda neat, I didn't realize that worked.  I guess I never tried copying the image the right way.  Doesn't seem there's any way to control the size though?

[Psi]

MSPaint in Win10 works fine. 
Load any image into mspaint that has some 100% black in it, draw selection box around the area you want and click the 'copy' button.
Then paste into an Altium PCB document

That's kinda neat, I didn't realize that worked.  I guess I never tried copying the image the right way.  Doesn't seem there's any way to control the size though?

Yes, there is a way to do that. (at least it works in AD15 that i'm using)
When you first paste the image into Altium it will have "handles" You can drag those to make it bigger/smaller.
(If you click off the object you will lose the handles. Getting them back is annoying you have to click "Resize Union" and then click in the right place)

[ubbut]

My preferred method is to make a custom Truetype font and then just create a string object and use that font. Creating the font can be painful though.