Problem with jpegs when re-opening DWG

[TCad]

Hi guys and gals,

 

Had a client request a schematic but for the hardware of a schematic to be represented with JPEGs of the component.

Having a bizarre one where I've re-opened a DWG which had about 15 JPEGs in (which were copied from pictures off of the net) and the images aren't appearing when re-opening the file. I've just got a blank space with a boundry with drag points.

 

When I double click on where the image is supposed to be I got the 'Image Adjust' properties box and a space where the image is supposed to be in the box and all it says is 'Image File Unsupported.'

 

Found nada on the help file.

 

Any suggestions?

 

I'm fearing having the 'ball ache' of having to obtain the images again, and cropping them and resizing them and wasting a load of time on them which I haven't got to spear.

 

Any help muchly appreciated.

[SLW210]

How were they inserted into the drawing?

[rkent]

IMAGEHLT, set to 1 ?

 

Nevermind, I read the description in help wrong.

Edited March 28, 2011 by rkent

[TCad]

I copied and pasted the images in...I know that's the wrong way but I did it on the fly as the pressure was on.

 

Could that be the cause?

[eldon]

If you go to Image Manager, what Saved Path is shown with the images?

[TCad]

Ahh I think I may have sussed the problem. It's saying the image can't be found and the image path resides in a temporary internet folder. I know the internet history has been deleted on this particular computer since the original DWG was saved.

 

Could that be the cause?

 

But it doesn't make sense to me why the image isn't directly saved to the DWG?

 

Just seems a bit silly.....

 

Would this mean if I was to transfer the file to another computer the JPEGs would dissapear as well?

[eldon]

Ever since a long time, images have not been embedded in the drawing, because it saves on file size. Thus the image is linked to the drawing file through a path name, and is not actually part of the drawing file (look at the file size).

 

If you want to send the drawing file to someone, you have to send the image files as well.

[TCad]

Ahh makes sense since you put it like that but at the same time it's very frustrating.

 

Thanks for the explination.

 

Where abouts in East Sussex are you based out of interest?

[eldon]

but at the same time it's very frustrating.

 

Some people call it progress

 

 

Where abouts in East Sussex are you based out of interest?

 

Just East of Beachy Head

[TCad]

Some people call it progress

 

Haha very true.

 

 

 

Just East of Beachy Head

 

Eastbourne? Gods waiting room ....

[eldon]

Eastbourne? Gods waiting room ....

 

Shhhhhh. Don't let on, otherwise I will have to ask CadTutor to change my status to Elder Member

[TCad]

um sorry...I meant....Eastbourne, Ibiza of the South East.

[TCad]

Gaahhh!! It's happened again.

 

This time though I actually saved the files onto the harddrive and 'attached' them onto the drawing.

 

It says the images are not supported but it is showing a file location.

 

What am I missing here?

[SLW210]

What type of path is selected? How did you insert? OLE or Image Attach? Is both the drawing and the images in the same folder? What information is provided in the XREF manager?

[TCad]

What type of path is selected? How did you insert? OLE or Image Attach? Is both the drawing and the images in the same folder? What information is provided in the XREF manager?

 

Ok so I've gone through the image manager and I've traced it down to AutoCAD for some reason is not remembering the file location, it's just saying the file location is blank, yet I havn't moved the file.

 

Is there some settings to make it remember the locations.

 

No all the images are kept in one folder to reference from. Should the images usually be kept in the same folder as the CAD drawing, it wouldn't make a difference would it?

 

I also Attach the images. I'm not too sure and confident of the whole OLE process yet.

[Organic]

Technically, so long as AutoCad has access to those images, no. However if you are saving the .dwg onto a network drive (or usb or whatever), the images need to also be saved at that location so others can access them. There is nothing worse than finding a drawing with images in it that are missing, you look at the image locations and they are Documents & Settings/Andy/Desktop/image1.jpg etc where Andy is some guy who done the drawing 5 years ago and has long moved on.

 

As far as I am aware, it should be remembering the image location automatically and try to load them. Are you going Insert -> Raster Image Reference when inserting the images?

[SLW210]

What is the path type? Look in help and search for "Set Paths to Referenced Drawings" it will explain how AutoCAD searches for attachments depending on the path type selected.