AutoCAD 2008
3.) Does anyone know if there is a way to just bind a raster image into an autocad drawing, without having it show up in the xref manager?
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AutoCAD 2008
3.) Does anyone know if there is a way to just bind a raster image into an autocad drawing, without having it show up in the xref manager?
It isn't really the XRef manager... it is the External References palette. Since images are an external reference, i.e. the drawing is "broken" when the image cannot be found, they do belong in there.
You can import a .wmf but not most other image formats.
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AutoCAD doesn't understand raster formats - it doesn't need to.
It creates a box and allows an image to be placed in it.
If you have Raster Design, you can embed an image into the drawing. Otherwise, there isn't an option that I know of.
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[quote=CADKitty;901208]Easy answer - no. Raster images have never been able to be bound like xrefs can be.[quote]
I think GIFIN and TIFIN in R10, R11 did actually bind images, but I recall it to be horrendously slow.
[QUOTE=scott.wilcox;902237][quote=CADKitty;901208]Easy answer - no. Raster images have never been able to be bound like xrefs can be.I think Windows use of "helper" applications made acad image translation redundant.
I think GIFIN and TIFIN in R10, R11 did actually bind images, but I recall it to be horrendously slow.
You can embed an image like a jpg into autocad, open a program like paint, open the jpg, edit>select all, edit>copy, go into autocad, paste. List jpg and it reports as OLE, embedded. The external references palette will not list the image.