Use cases for inserting raster images into drawings?

I have only seen it a couple of times where I work, but in those cases it has been to take a picture (jpg) of a kit of vendor parts that would have taken too long to draw. The picture was then embedded in the drw to document the kit and layout.

I think I have also seen cases where people have embeded logos that way.

Sorry I don't have any actual screenshots I can provide.

We regularly take vendor prints in PDF or jpg or tiff (or whatever they send us) and add them to our format to document the vendor item. Generally we do this in AutoCAD since it's hit or miss in Creo.

Below I show a typical version of this. I had to obfuscate the contents since we can't share that drawing.

We don't worry about scale or really anything other than readability once on our format.

We typically have 1 image per drawing but I have seen more based on the # of sheets needed.

I bury images in drawing formats for clients.  Quick and easy drawing logo.

The underlying images of shaded views are an automated way to use raster images.

All geometry and annotation is an overlay on images so there are no printing conflicts with foreground.

I sometimes add raster images to drawings using Adobe Acrobat after exporting to PDF. I put a placeholder in the Creo drawing file so that I know which image goes where. It isn't a good workflow, but it's better than using the OLE solution that's built-in. The images are usually diagrams from other sources, for example the make-up of a laminate material such as an anti-reflective coating on glass.

I think it is important that the user has control over whether the image is re-sampled by Creo. I feel that by default it should not be re-compressed. I want a very sharp image and the ability to re-scale it in the future without loosing the original quality. The image should definitely not be stored separately from the .DRW file. Once it is imported the image should be inside the .DRW file and the original no-longer needed. I also think it is important that the raster image is exported to .DWG if such an export is done.

The formats I would most like support for are PNG and TIFF. Importing PDF files into Creo would be a huge undertaking for PTC and of no value to me. I would not trust that the import was perfect. Bigger companies have tried to add PDF import and failed. However, I would welcome the ability to import SVGs which is also a much easier thing to do from a technical standpoint.

I'd be happy to beta test this or any other new functionality.

The first bunch is just regular bitmap management and shouldn't need a 'use case':

I'd add that being able to knock out one or more colors would be useful.

Stacking management - allowing the bitmap to be either first plotted or last plotted; sometimes referred to as z-order.

Editable polygon clipping using lines and arcs; splines are too sensitive to do a clean job.

Transparency control.

Scale, mirror, and rotate, color invert.

These are interaction needs:

Linked offset from other bitmaps, views, drawing geometry - the use is diagrams where the bitmap is used to clarify/illustrate relationships

Recoverable original file/replaceable/ extraction. - the use is to be able to manage updates at a later time without the complication of separately managing the content

*Unlike MS products that convert pasted graphics into an in-editable format and require delete/replace to update embedded bitmaps.

No GIF animations: let animations wait for Creo 22.