Hybrid Modeling by Matt Lombard at SolidWorks World 2008 LINK
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Ben
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RodUding
I am having issues with PNG image in my drawings. I have the company logo as a PNG image in the sheet format for all of our drawing templates. When I create a new drawing, the logo shows up. After I save the drawing and open it later, the image is not displayed. However, if I edit the sheet format, I can click the area where the image is supposed to be and I get the property manager for it and the outline shows up onscreen. Any clues as to what is going on here?
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Ben
History of CAD by Jon Hirschtick at SolidWorks World 2008
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brian
I would have dressed up more if I knew I was going to have so many cameos…LOL!
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Jason Corl
Nice videl, wish I could go so I don’t miss talks like this.
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Chris Serran 7:49 am on January 14, 2009 Permalink
I ran into this issue a while back, I’ll just post the reply from our VAR, it seemed to help:
“I believe that sketch pictures were designed to work in sketches. Since the option is available in drawings, and I confirmed this issue with assembly drawing, I will check with SolidWorks about it.
To insert pictures in drawings, we typically use Insert, Object – Create from File. Sometimes this option does not work correctly due to Windows OLE limitation, and in that case there is a simple workaround: a picture is inserted in a document such as Word, copied and pasted on the drawing. I have attached a drawing with the small Waterous logo inserted this way; the big logo was inserted using Insert, Object command.”
RodUding 8:47 am on January 14, 2009 Permalink
Hmmm, this is interesting. Previously the image was a bitmap, a huge bitmap that made the template files 2MB in size. I replaced it the PNG to reduce the size. I inserted the new PNG file using the Insert>Picture. I wonder if there is a difference between Insert>Picture and Insert>Object?
Chris Serran 8:51 am on January 14, 2009 Permalink
I’m not too sure but it’s something I’ll test out.
My templates are around 2mb as well and it’s a PITA having such large drawing files.