OLE Objects

[demetre]

I am currently using Autocad LT 2006 and have trouble with maintaining correct OLE object proportions when importing into Autocad.

 

Essentially I am copying and pasting a jpeg file (ie a land survey) from Photoshop into Autocad. However when I do so and then scale a portion of the image to its known dimension (ie a property line) the image never scales proportionally - I think this is not do to the scaling function but when the image is pasted it pastes slightly off proportion. For instance I can copy and paste an image of a 25'x25' square and when pasted into autocad one of the sides of the square is slightly larger than the other.

 

I have tried the same copy and paste on a 30 day trial of Autocad 2011 and do not get the same problem.

 

Does anyone have any input on this problem for such an older version of Autocad?

[chulse]

Does LT have the ALIGN command?

[demetre]

Thru trial and erros I think I just figured out how to paste and scale to maintain proper proportions.

 

I have no clue why this works and other methods do not.

 

I selected and copied the image in photoshop and did a paste special as a bitmap in Autocad. This for some reason is the only way to paste while maintaining proportions.

 

Then in order to scale it while maintaining proportions I had to grab one grip on a corner to scale it a little bigger. After doing this scale once I can then use the scale command to scale it to a known dimension. Only then do I have a scaled and proportioned drawing.

 

Again I have no clue why this works and others methods do not.