1. Describe your environment: What is your industry? What is your role in your organization? Describe your stakeholders. Auto Design Engineer Auto manufacturers 2. What version of Creo Parametric are you currently running? 7.0.3.0 3. Describe the problem you are trying to solve. Please include detailed documentation such as screenshots, images or video. https://www.ptc.com/en/blogs/cad/adding-images-to-engineering-drawings-made-easy The function of placing images in drawing with the built is image tool does not work out of the box as intended and the fix is a workaround with undesirable effects. I'll define work. Import image to DRW, save. The image should always stay visible in the DRW but it is not. File is only linked so the separate image file has to be in same dir(maybe, did not test) or in texture folder( texture_search_path) . Image is not a texture though. Send DRW to someone They open it and see a black box instead of an image, Import image to DRW, check in to Windchill. again the image is lost because its a separate file. The workaround for this is to set "SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL YES" but, having that saves all textures to model as well saving the pictures to the DRW. PTC needs to decouple these. Usually you do not want to save all textures to models and bloat up model files. I tried toggling on SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL saving pictures to DRW, works, check in ok, and prints well. I then toggled off the setting and checked out the drw again, moved the image , resized it. Then tested its printing/windchill PDF. Poof all gone. SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL would have to be set to YES all the time to work. Not sure that is good with all the ramifications that could cause other issues. Which means back to OLE Object import/create new with Paintbrush(aka MSpaint) in session. OLE option offers no aspect ratio lock and not much for features in general. Note default setting is " SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL NO" A new config option specific to the drawing image tool could make the image tool PTC is showing off in the linked video usable without side effects that are undesirable. Suggestion: DRAWING_IMAGE_IMPORT_EMBED YES* YES* - Saves/Embeds images imported to the drawing into the drawing file NO - Does not save/embed images in drawings to the drawing file 4. What is the use case for your organization? Proper function of the tool in CREO as shown in the promo video. Used for images as shown in promo and for putting a supplier drawing picture/PDF inside a title block. The new image tool has desirable functions, namely aspect ratio lock. However, can not use the tool because " SAVE_TEXTURE_WITH_MODEL YES" is not something wanted for all models. Use of the older OLE to embed images is still the go to option but, that tool lacks aspect ratio lock, transparency, and more. 5. What business value would your suggestion represent for your organization? Productivity increase - easy use of the image tool that has been pushed to the front by default Training decrease - Do not have to explain to new and old users why the new image tool can not be used Problem/Error decrease - Do no have to spend time fixing DRWs saved to Windchill over years that are missing images. Make the "MADE EASY" part of the promo video true.
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