Embedding Photos

[knafziger]

Hello,

 

I'm having a problem embedding photos. Some of the drawings that I'm working with will embed these for me and others won't. Is there a setting within the drawings that I need to reset? How can I consistantly embed these photos with out setting them up as an external reference?

 

Thanks!

[ReMark]

What command are you using to bring photos into AutoCAD?

What is the file type for the photos?

Do you set a Full, Relative or No path for retrieval of the photos by AutoCAD?

Edited February 8, 2011 by ReMark
Changed the word Fixed to Full.

[knafziger]

I'm using a simple copy/paste from the windows picture viewer into AutoCAD. The photos are either .tiff or .jpg. And I'm not setting a path at all for AutoCAD. The bases of doing this and not a external reference is that these drawings will be posted to a online database where many consultants and our client can retrieve them. My superiors are saying that they don't want to use e-transmitted .zip files nor xrefs or ease of file sharing and now my CAD won't paste these photos into the drawing.

[ReMark]

Well you may have yourself fooled but not us. You are setting a path, or at least AutoCAD is. Click on the picture's frame then look in Properties and way down at the bottom you see an item called Path (under Misc) and lo and behold there is the name of your photo (without the file type) and the path to where it is stored. Think on it and get back to us.

[knafziger]

Alright,

 

I see the path. Is there a way to bind photos to the drawing?

[ReMark]

Bind? Not that I am aware of.

 

I would use the IMAGEATTACH command and set the Path option to "No Path".

 

The drawings that will be referenced by the consultants and clients, and by extension, the photos that are included as part of the drawing should all be stored in the same folder. When the drawing is opened the photo should be pulled in. The program being used to open the drawing should default to looking in the current folder that the drawing is stored in.

 

What software is being used to provide your consultants and clients with access to the drawings?

[knafziger]

We're using a format that is known internally as Share Point. I think that it's a Microsoft product but I'm not sure. I works to store files mainly. This softwear doesn't work like an .ftp site though, which limits any pathing ability. Is there not a way that I can insert photos where AutoCAD will embed them alike what Microsoft Word does? Such that I can send one .dwg file and when the client opens it everything will appear automatically?

[ReMark]

Does the word eTransmit ring a bell?

 

I wasn't aware that you were sending the drawings. I thought you were creating some type of portal where all the consultants/clients would come to you not the other way around.

[knafziger]

no no...

 

I can't etransmit these. And we are using a kind of portal. But this portal isn't really linked to a server like an ftp. It's all web based so I can't have any references. The copy and paste command was working then it stopped. I just wasn't sure if there was another way of embedding these photos with no reference.

[ReMark]

How do you know the copy/paste command stopped?

 

Why do you have to use a DWG itself? Set it up on your computer and do a screen shot of it and post the image instead. Nothing to reference.

 

I am not aware of any method of "embedding" a photo in an AutoCAD drawing. If there is I too would like to know about that technique not that I make much use of photos (none to be exact) in my drawings. Let us know if you do find a way.

[ReMark]

Have you tried the INSERTOBJ command? That might work for you.

[Jodge]

Hello, I just had a similar (the same) problem. I've been copying and pasting jpegs into AutoCAD.

 

I found that the following worked:

- copy a screenshot or photo into MS Paint

- DO NOT SAVE THE PAINT FILE

- select all in Paint, copy, then paste in AutoCAD (CTRL P)

 

I also found that, if you're inserting photos in AutoCAD you end up with mighty big files. If you reduce the size of the photo (e.g. in Paint) and re-insert it, the print quality can deteriorate. I've found that, when printing the AutoCAD drawing (with pasted Photo) to PDF (if you have Adobe, or perhaps one of the free pdf creaters), then printing the PDF on your printer, the print quality is much better.