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June 15, 2016

2D Detailing: Embed Images in Drawings

  • June 15, 2016
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Attached to this blog post is a short presentation and a video on the new enhancement to allow direct embedding of images into drawings in Creo 4.0.

Any questions or feedback you have related to the ability to embed images in drawings should be provided as comments to the blog post.

That will be the easiest way for me to keep track of the comments and also be able to provide timely responses to your questions. If you follow this post, you can be notified of those comments as well and be able to learn from what others are asking. I may also periodically update this post to add some new details or information related to this enhancement.

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Additional details on this enhancement:

  • By default, the image is not saved with the drawing file but will continue to appear as long as Creo can find the image file on disk. Since this Images tool in drawings is the same tool that is used in Part and Assembly mode it follows the same behavior as in those modes. There is a config.pro option "save_texture_with_model” that when set to YES will allow the image to be saved with the model. This option is currently not working for drawings in the Sneak Peek, but it will be fixed by the time we ship F000.

 

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    RaphaelCNascime1-VisitorAuthor
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    July 28, 2016

    Actually, I would prefer to just have it default to 0% transparency in drawings as the 80% use case and avoid the config. That'll probably be easier to do anyway.

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    TomU23-Emerald IV
    23-Emerald IV
    July 28, 2016

    Okay with me! 

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    lhoogeveen17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    June 7, 2018

    How does one embed images into a drawing so there's no external references or links? When we add an image to drawings, Creo 4 M040 creates a link to user's computer location for the image. The link breaks when the drawings gets checked into Windchill because the file isn't found on the next person's computer. If it is possible to embed images, is there a way to make it the default? I assume most people would want to have images embed by default... imagine PowerPoint having external links to any images. Everyone would have broken PowerPoints all the time.

     

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    lhoogeveen17-Peridot
    17-Peridot
    June 7, 2018

    I think I figured it out. The unintuitive setting save_texture_with_model yes seems to control this. Why this is defaulted to no? Seems like that is a recipe to break things all the time.

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    mechengineer311-Visitor
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    January 7, 2019

    Thank you for your detail explaination about the 2D Detailing .

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    Pettersson15-Moonstone
    15-Moonstone
    December 20, 2019

    Has anyone managed to import an image and maintain decent resolution? Whatever I try, with different image formats and config options, I can never get a high-resolution image to be imported at same resolution in Creo. It always gives me a low-resolution version.

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      JG_94568401-Visitor
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      August 31, 2020

      @Pettersson I got the same problem... Have you found a solution for the quality drop of the pictures when creating a pdf?

       

      Many thanks!

       

      Janik

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      Pettersson15-Moonstone
      15-Moonstone
      September 1, 2020

      Nope. Sorry.

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