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January 21, 2023
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Some CGMs not showing up in PDF

  • January 21, 2023
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We're having a problem where some graphics are not showing up in our PDFs. Most graphics appear without a problem, but some more complicated graphics appear as just a blank space with the Figure's name below.  We use CorelDraw to create the CGMs. Add them into the DMs in Arbortext, and PDF in Windchill.

Anyone else ever have this problem?

When we try working on it in IsoDraw to export as a CGM we get a polygon warning. See attached.

 

 

Best answer by CS_10053519

Our solution has been to download a .dwg version of the illustration (we were using pdf versions), open via IsoDraw to insert callouts and make the .cgm, and not use COREL at all. Opening a pdf in Corel was causing the problem, it creates a thousand separate little lines and triangles. Opening a .dwg in IsoDraw completely bypasses that issue.  I'm slowly getting our team trained in using IsoDraw so we can abandon Corel.

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bfriesen18-Opal
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January 22, 2023
What happens if you make the images PDFs, then reference the pdf. We do this for our schematics.

Bryon
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January 22, 2023

It still won't show up. 

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bfriesen18-Opal
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January 23, 2023

The pdf image created from corel draw shows the image in the pdf? When inserting the pdf file into editor do you see the image, but when creating a pdf from Editor it does not show up? 

 

Bryon

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CS_1005351910-MarbleAuthorAnswer
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May 18, 2023

Our solution has been to download a .dwg version of the illustration (we were using pdf versions), open via IsoDraw to insert callouts and make the .cgm, and not use COREL at all. Opening a pdf in Corel was causing the problem, it creates a thousand separate little lines and triangles. Opening a .dwg in IsoDraw completely bypasses that issue.  I'm slowly getting our team trained in using IsoDraw so we can abandon Corel.

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