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Import a Drawing Stencil

Rowan Patents comes with 150+ built-in stencils for use in your drawings, but you can also import your own as .jpeg, .png, and .svg images.

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Written by Laura Berwick
Updated over a year ago

  1. Open the Drawing Tool and create or navigate to a desired figure.
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  2. Locate your desired stencil image (.svg, .jpg, or .png) file in your operating system file explorer and drag it onto your drawing canvas
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  3. Alternately, select the Image Stencil (JPG, PNG, SVG) option from the Import dropdown in the toolbar or Drawing menu
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    Drag and drop the Image Import stencil from the Special Elements group in the Stencils panel in the Drawing Tool left-hand sidebar onto the drawing canvas.
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    Use the resulting dialog to drag and drop or browse to the desired image.
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  4. Your image will be inserted as a numbered element, and can be named, copied, pasted, connected, resized, etc. as any other stencil.
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