Sheet Creation & Attachments

[jmartin.103933]

Can someone PLEASE let me in on the secret????? ;-)

I have created a master template drawing sheet which works just fine. But the company wanted to incorporate their new logo onto the title block which was given to me in "jpg" format. I inserted/attached it into my drawing template and everything works and looks great.............but on my machine only! If I share my template with anyone else, the jpg logo does not follow to their machine, so when they open up the drawing there is simply a blank space with one of those pesky reference notations. My question: is this image insertion quandary similar to an xref where if you want it to become a permanent "resident" of a particular drawing you have to "bind" it in??? I cannot find that kind of command available for an image insertion. Is there another way to permanently "bind" a jpg image to a drawing so it follows the drawing no matter where??

Can you tell this is driving me bonkers????? Seems like such a simple thing, but I'm tearing my hair out! Any help is appreciated!
Thanks much!

[cadtag]

There's not a 'good' way to do it. You could cut and paste the graphic as an OLE object and embed it, but quality is questionable and ther are other issue with OLE. AutoCAD is not a general purpose graphics program, and does have significant limitations when used as one.

Your best bet for a functional logo that works with CAD is to recreate it with Autocad entities -- lines, solids, hatches, etc. Do it once, and it will work reliably everywhere.

Alternatively, and this _will_ break when you least want it to, you could attach the image file from a network drive that everyone has access to using the same drive letter, as in Q:\LOGOS\mycomanylogo.jpg.