×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

JPGs in Drawings

JPGs in Drawings

JPGs in Drawings

(OP)
Having searched the forums for this topic and gleaning what I can from the tribulations of others, I still need some help.

We have several machines in out CAD dept, some are running XP64 Pro, others are running XP32 Pro with Solidworks 2006 (SP5.0 and SP 4.0 Respectively). Our company drawing templates contain a jpg for the logo, and dozens of drawings contain embedded jpegs. Until recently, everything worked fine for all the machines, then about a month ago all the 64 bit machines quit showing the jpegs, just completely missing from the drawing files... but when I open them on the 32 bit machines they are still there, though on one 32 bit machine it gives me an error when I try to click on the image "Class Not Registered". Having looked into this further, I have learned that all images inserted should be done as bitmaps and not jpegs, however this does not help me since we have thousands of drawings that already have jpegs in them. How can I get the 64 bit machines to recognize these embedded jpegs again?

Note, I did try doing a complete clean install of Solidworks 2006 SP5.0 on one of the 64 bit machines and it was to no avail.

Thanks in advance, this is one of those horrible inherited problems that I need to resolve soon.

RE: JPGs in Drawings

Are the JPG's linked to files on a server? If so, the files could have been moved, deleted, or links broken.

Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion

RE: JPGs in Drawings

Or a Windows update could have "fixed" something so well that it no longer works.

cheers

RE: JPGs in Drawings

(OP)
Jpegs are linked to files on a server, but the source files are still present and have not been changed whatsoever. If it were just a deleted or broken link, why would some computers still be able to pull up the embedded jpegs just fine.

I find it likely that windows update could have "fixed" something, but I don't quite know where to begin with doing something about that.

RE: JPGs in Drawings

Have you verified that the default application used to open JPEGs is the same on the computers exhibiting the problem as it is on computers that have not been affected?

I had a similar issue in the past and making the default application consistent among all machines solved it.

RE: JPGs in Drawings

(OP)
dgowans;

Yep, I set it to windows picture and fax viewer on all the machines and it still only works on the 32 bit machines. I had the exact same thought...

RE: JPGs in Drawings

(OP)
Options did not help, set both the referenced documents and the blocks paths to the locations of my inserted jpegs

Thanks for the help thus far... keep the ideas coming!

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources