Raster image showing up blank

[patricks]

I have a couple of raster images of a site survey I'm trying to place in my overall plan view. I dropped one image in fine and resized it, but then the second image I placed appeared solid black. I deleted it, placed it again and this time it was solid white.

So I opened both images in Photoshop, stitched them together into a single image, lowered the DPI and increased JPEG compression so that the final file size was actually smaller than each individual original image file. Then I dropped that one in, and it also came in as solid white (or blank). Anyone know what might be causing this?

[ws]

Not much help but just to say that this happened to me when upgrading a project from 2008 to RAC 2009.

I had a large image (a scan of an old plan nearly A1 in size) which I was drawing on top of.

After upgrading to RAC 2009 the image was all black.

I tried all sorts of things - deleting and re-importing the image, unpinning and repinning, Auditing when opening the project, checking the graphics driver, deleting the View and recreating it...

In the end the image reappeared and I've not had problems since - but I have no idea why.

[patricks]

Well I tried dropping the original image in there (the one that worked before) and suddenly it was coming in blank. So I closed and reopened Revit and it works fine now.

[scramer.118425]

Just confirming behavior... I imported a .jpg image into a plan view, and it came in solid black... saved and restarted Revit and it shows up fine now. ...?!

[Andre Carvalho]

I have seen this when importing and inserting the image into Revit and later moving (copying) the same Revit file to another computer (like a laptop to take the file home). Although the image is supposed to be embedded into the Revit file after imported, looks like it miss its original path and becomes black (or even disappear) from time to time...

Not sure why, though...

Andre Carvalho