Drawing Formats and images

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Permalink Reply by martin kopplow on October 7, 2009 at 4:50am

Hi Tijs,

I've played with formats quite some the recent weeks and found that it works allright with logos placed in the template file. I made formats for all purposes and all paper sizes our printers support. I use the PNG format wit alpha channel for the logo, FWIW, just because that's how they are available here. I don't know if other graphic file formats work just as well.

What really bugs me with formats is that you can only have one current format per document, so when I make drawings for the multiple parts of an assembly, and the individual parts require different paper sizes and orientations, it's all messed up, because once I add a new drawing in a new format, all old drawings loose their format and acquire the new one. When I then want to view or print other drawings, I first need to readjust the format. That's annoying.

Does anybody have a suggestion how to handle this?

Martin

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Permalink Reply by Tijs Driessen on October 7, 2009 at 7:16am

Hi Martin,

Thanks for the reply! I managed to have a printed logo the last time I printed something. It worked fine after I installed SP 3. So that's solved.

I agree with you that it's frustrating that you can only have one paper size per document. I solved it by making all separate documents of the components in my assemblies. So then the drawings are linked to a different file which makes it possible to choose different formats and sizes.

I hope that works for you too.

Tijs

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Permalink Reply by martin kopplow on October 7, 2009 at 7:58am

Hi Tijs,

I have been thinking along that line, but was not certain, if it would work. Exteralizing all my components would take a while, I guess, but if you say that it solves the sheet size issue it might well be worth it.

Earlier this year I had issues with this, though: I created an assembly, made all components external, then opened them one by one and created drawings. Everything was just fine, then. When I opened the assembly again, most drawings were gone and I had several with the same sheet number, which was somewhat disturbing, obviously not only for me, but also for the application.

I'll try with a copy, then! :O)

Martin

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