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.
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
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
RE: JPGs in Drawings
RE: JPGs in Drawings
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
I had a similar issue in the past and making the default application consistent among all machines solved it.
RE: JPGs in Drawings
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
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion
RE: JPGs in Drawings
Thanks for the help thus far... keep the ideas coming!
RE: JPGs in Drawings
Chris
SolidWorks/PDMWorks 08 3.1
AutoCAD 08
ctopher's home (updated Aug 5, 2008)
ctopher's blog
SolidWorks Legion