XREF vs Insert

[redbeardcad]

We have a site plan that has developed over the years fromseveral sources. Hand drafted, CAD, civil and surveyor. Two years ago I inserted an image from Googlemaps. Now we have a more recent image from county GIS dept.

Would it be better to have this image (JPEG) XREF’ed in orleave it as an inserted image?

This Site dwg will most likely be XREF’ed into other dwgsnow as we get more detail in our facilities drawings.

[redbeardcad]

No takers? Nobody uses XREFs? Nobody inserts jpegs?

[SLW210]

I would XREF if file size mattered, if not Insert.

[RobDraw]

I have almost always referenced images.

[CyberAngel]

It depends on what you plan to do with the drawing. If you'll want to send out the drawing with the image included, it's easier to insert it. If you'll use Transmit instead, you might as well xref it. Once you xref it into another drawing, you can unload it when you want it out of the way.

[redbeardcad]

I guess file size is always something I try to keep to aminimum. I do xref a base drawing intoour plant layout for machines so that the basic building doesn’t get changedwhen machines change.

Sometimes an image may be needed for presentation purposes,so I have inserted them. The image has to be scaled to fit drawing so if itwere xref’d then when the image gets updated (as in this GIS image) it would alreadybe scaled, and it would be aligned right?

I have not used Transmit in over 10 years so don’t know muchabout it.

Once in a great while we send drawings out, butmostly its for our own maintenance guys to use. And show the Board when theywant to know what’s going on.

[CyberAngel]

From everything you've told us, I would leave the image as an xref. Don't forget that, with the overlay option, an xref won't carry over to the next drawing--in other words, it won't become a nested xref.

[redbeardcad]

I will experiment with this and see what works well. Thank you all for your input.