Adding JPG or TIFF to a Creo Parametric Drawing

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August 23, 2013
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We are wanting to add image files to some drawing but the "Insert Object" option does not work. All I get is an image placeholder that links me to the image but I don't see the actual image on the drawing.

Any ideas?

ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ

2D Drawing

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bkurth

10-Marble

Hi Damian,

I have been messing with many ways to get images to import consistently. It is not as easy as it may seem. Here is what I found that works very consistently. The images are clean, and they scale and move without distortion.

We are on Creo2 M040.

Use a TIFF file to start. It seems to be the cleanest output from many programs. Once you have your TIFF file, open it in Paint.

Once in Paint, click File >> Save as (be sure to click Save as, not one of the Save as Options that pop up if you hover your mouse).

Click Monochrome Bitmap (of if you want color, 16 Color Bitmap) It seems the higher color choices don't work consistently...at least for me.

Click Save. You will get a Color Quality Message. Click Ok. You will now have a .BMP file to import.

In PTC, on the Layout Tab, Click Object >> Create from File >> Locate and then double-click your saved file. Your image will import into PTC. It will probably be larger than you want it to be, but you can then scale the image and translate to size and move it where you want it to be in your drawing.

Just in case: To scale the image. Go to the Annotate Tab, Click Edit >> Scale >> Click the image,then OK, then Click a Location Point for Scaling, then type in your scale factor. Same steps to Translate the image, too.

I have attached some images.

Many times we get PDF Files to start with. They do not want to be friendly in PTC. We use 'office Convert Pdf to Jpg Jpeg Tiff Free" to export the PDF files to TIFF, and then use Paint, as described to get to a BMP.

I would like to know if this works well for you, as well. Finding the consistency has been a real battle.

Good luck...Brian

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TomD.inPDX

17-Peridot

I too found the .BMP file format to be the only OLE compatible file format for inserting images by default. I have not had trouble with the higher color formats though. The real problem is that the image pixelates regardless of the resolution of the original. I find that capturing a screenshot and pasting it in MS-Paint is sufficient for most operations.

Also check out the drawing_ole_image_pdi config.pro option; default is 150 and max is 600.

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bkurth

10-Marble

Hi Antonius...that is the problem I have found with the .BMP files, too. They pixelate if you resize them. For some reason, the Monochrome Bitmap setting seems to scale much cleaner. I don't get any pixelization with these files. For us, we are usually bringing in a customer or supplier print, so the monochrome works...we rarely need to use color. But I have found that pixelization seems to set in, again, at the higher color resolutions.

For those interested:

<h1>drawing_ole_image_dpi</h1>

drawing_ole_image_dpi

0-600 dots per inch (dpi)

controls the image resolution of object linking and embedding (ole) objects when exporting or saving the drawings as picture files or read-only drawings. the file size increases with the increase in the dpi value.

0â€”ole objects are not printed.

Brian

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ptc-4780081

1-Visitor

I'm using Creo 3.0 M120 and this solution does not work for me at all. I'm trying to get an image generated in Adobe Illustrator CS6 of Logo's and Icons referencing a specific artwork file, and attempting to convert it and drag it into the Creo Drawing just barfs leaving me a rectangular box with "OLE" inside. I'm running Win7 Pro - 64bit and this sure looks like an OLE problem, but who's OLE isn't working?