Drawing Border Logo

[Andy B PWP]

Hello,

First post time

Hope someone can shed some light on this for me. I'm creating a company drawing border which has the company logo on it. I've created the border and created a block out of it with all the attributes working fine. The problem occurs when the border is copied into paper space to create a template with the logo decreasing in size.

Any help would be grateful as this is becoming very :x

[Mark Ruble]

Hello Andy B PWP,

I'm a little unclear on what's happening Andy. Did you create the title block in paper space or in model space? I created all my companies title blocks and logos and I created them in paper space then created a template file of this so when a user creates a new drawing all they have to do is select the correct sized paper template (A, B or C sized) and then start working in model space. I hope this helps.

[sab423]

Im a little unclear on what is going on as well. :?

This is what I have done in the past. I have created borders in model space for 5 different sheet sizes and orientations (A,B,C,D and E; landscape and portrait). I also have attributes and everything set up for the borders as well. Then I insert the border like a block and the border can be inserted into either model or paper space. The borders were created at a 1:1 scale. That way I can insert them at the appropriate scale factor for the drawing scale.

I'm not sure if this helps answer your question. :oops: If you can give a little more detail, I will try help more if I can.

Scott 8)

[Mark Ruble]

sab423 what you described is what I have done in the past for our company. We have different title blocks for A, B and C size title blocks and the user selects the proper size. We have attributes in our title block for all information except for the drawing name which is created with rtext along with the file/time stamp which is also created with rtext. These are in our standard template file along with our standard layering and other defined standards. This has worked for us in the past.

[Andy B PWP]

Right ok. Reading my first post back it was a rather poor explanation so here goes again.

I've been tasked with creating new ones due to a company rebrand so i'm sort of learning as I go along. Set up at the moment are the drawing borders in model space drawn at 1:1 scale for A1, A3 and A4 and there is a template for each so we've got a template directory with .dwg and a separate .dwt directory. From what I can work out, I think the previous creater has designed a border in model space then copied it into a correctly sized paper space then saved it as a template file. The system we have got set up now sound similar to both of yours, when the user wants to create a new drawing the template file path is pointed to the company ones and they just need to pick which size.

Anyway back to the problem. So i've created a title block in model space and everything is fine, now I need to copy/insert it into paper space to create a template file and this is where the problem mentioned previously occurs.

Mark> If you create your borders in paper space then create the .dwt file from that, where do you make amendments to the border if needed. Would you just have to explode the border and save it again or keep 2 copies, one as a .dwg and one as a .dwt?

Thanks again.

[Mark Ruble]

Andy B PWP,

We create the border in Paper Space and it is a block with attributes. If any modification needs done to the border which is very rare then we use "Refedit" command to edit the border. We really used this feature a lot last year when our companies logo changed. Every drawing in the system had to be changed plus all our template drawings. Hope this helps.

[Andy B PWP]

Thanks for the help so far but i've got another problem.

I've been given a new logo which I have as a bitmap image, a GIFF file and in a Word document.

I'm having trouble making the image part of a block. I've copied the image from the word document and it copies in fine and am able to adjust the size but it doesn't become part of the block and when i've tried inserting it other ways it loses its quality.

Thanks in advance. Andy.

[Mark Ruble]

Andy B PWP,

We had our new logo created by an outside graphic artist which I didn't agree with at the time, and the new logo came in several formats, all of which AutoCAD had troubles with. I figured that the time it would take to get something to work was time better spent just recreating. That is exactly what I did. I even created another in 3D and a few people have our new company logo spinning on their desktop as a screensaver. I'm not sure how this was done but one of our engineers knows a program called snag-it and I think it was done that way.

[Big Mike]

Do you have 'imageframe' set to on?

Our company logo is part of my title_block blocks...and when I create/redefine the block, I have to have 'imageframe' set to on...to be able to select the image as part of the block.

I sometimes have to insert many companies logo into a drawing and turn imageframe on so that I'm able to move them around. I have to turn it off so that it doesn't plot with a border around the images...but I often forget to turn imageframe back on and if I move the drawing objects, the images stay where they are and don't' get moved with the objects :roll: