Eoin R Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 We are having a problem with incorporating images into Vectorworks. We want to bring in free hand sketches into the VW drawings. The problem is that as well as the images we are getting a very faint but noticable box around the image and a pair of diagonal lines running from corner to corner. Does anybody know of any way of getting rid of the box and the diagonal lines? N.B. the lines do not appear in Photoshop prior to import into VW. Many thanks Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 from the menu bar choose File > Preferences > Document Preferences... from the Display tab make sure that your bitmap resolution is set to the highest possible. Quote Link to comment
Eoin R Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 Hmmmm! The bitmap display preferences are set at full resolution and I still get this box with diagonal lines. Any other things to check? Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 what about the memory on your computer? Layer settings... is the bitmap on the same layer? Quote Link to comment
nam Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 You may also want to check the pixel size of the image you are importing. VW will sometimes choke on very large images. If the image is just for tracing, a relatively low DPI setting is fine. If it is intended to print, you can get by with as low as 100dpi if necessary. [ 02-11-2005, 11:58 PM: Message edited by: nam ] Quote Link to comment
B.Balemi Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 What about the format type try alternatives . Is the formay supported? or at least is it better in another format Regards Brendan Quote Link to comment
Eoin R Posted February 12, 2005 Author Share Posted February 12, 2005 Thank you Archoncad, Nam & Balemi. We are going to try and fiddle with the image layer setting, size and format and see if that sorts it out. Quote Link to comment
Guest Posted February 14, 2005 Share Posted February 14, 2005 John, It sounds like you may have used a PICT or EPS that has a different resolution/preview/or bit parameter than your OS supports. Try to save the image as a format such as PNG, JPG or Bitmap and then import it. Quote Link to comment
Eoin R Posted February 14, 2005 Author Share Posted February 14, 2005 Thanks. The original image was in JPG format. I went back to the original image yesterday and in Photoshop decreased the resolution and increased the canvas(background) size. I then reimported the image into Vectorworks. It worked and the outline box did not appear. Maybe in a future version of VW this bug could be ironed out. We import a lot of photographs and graphics into our drawings and its important to get this right. Quote Link to comment
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