TheSwamp
Code Red => AutoLISP (Vanilla / Visual) => Topic started by: Dave M on January 31, 2013, 06:16:01 PM
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I am archiving a bunch of files, and would like to be able embed the images as OLE objects. Just wondering if anyone has a way to do it programmatically?
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It's probably an incredibly complex lisp interacting with possibly external programs. Might be easier doing this through C#.
But I can't understand why you want to do this. Setup an eTransmit setting to only save (not ZIP) and use folder structures correctly. Then create a Script file to perform this on multiple DWGs. That way all the images / xrefs / whatnot is repathed to a new copy made in the folder structure as specified in the transmittal setup. And the repathing is done to relative paths, so you can copy/move that wherever you want as long as you copy/move the whole set in one go.
That's the way we did archiving since 2005. Never had an issue with anything thus far.
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That's normally what I do also, but this client wants all the xrefs, etc. bound (not sure why). I'm not going to spend too much time trying to figure it out. They may just have to deal with having the images as-is.
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No quick way ?
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Here is the manual way to do it. http://autocadtips1.com/2013/02/22/embed-a-picture-not-as-a-reference/ (http://autocadtips1.com/2013/02/22/embed-a-picture-not-as-a-reference/)
According to this LINK http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Embed-a-raster-image-in-a-drawing.html (http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Embed-a-raster-image-in-a-drawing.html)
and from what I tested - If you have Raster Design and the images are BITONAL, you can simply open the drawing with RD and use the EMBED command and the bitonal images will now be embedded in the drawing
~Greg