However, while double click allows you to OPEN the embedded image in Paint, subsequently saving (or Update Embedded object) does not work due to seeming limitations (not wuite to the bottom of this yet).

For example, a client logo that needs to be part of the title block.

It would be better to convert the logo into a block object by tracing over the image in AutoCAD and applying hatching as needed.

But there are some logos that are not so simple and therefore using an embedded image is preferred.

I hope that this blog helps you learn at least one tip to make your draftingdesign experience better.

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The option of paintbrush picture is not available to me, What is the difference between using this option and Picture (metafile) or Device independent Bitmap Thanks.

Both will work. I just use this on both my personal and work computers.

So if you need a logo to display in your drawing sideways, you will need to rotate the picture outside of AutoCAD and save the picture at that rotation and then use the steps shown in the tip to bring it into the drawing.

If you want the block with the image to have the same name, after you explode the original block, purge your drawing of its definition.

So you might want to check the original pixelcount of the embedded picture.

However, when I close the dwg file and open it back up it shows a white area where the picture was but no graphics.

The size of the picture in the image editor considering its pixels will determine the size that it is displayed in the drawing.

My suggestion would be to somehow make it bigger in the picture editor.

I cant rotate the image and it shows up as an xref that cant be found.

But note that how it looks in the paint program will be how it looks in the drawing.

A little way down is a description of the variable OLEFRAME and its available options.

I have clients sending me drawings whch come without attached JPEGs.

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I could instruct them on how to place pics but want a simple solution if one exists.

Regards.

When I paste special the image now, it wont appear after I re-open the drawing it was inserted in.

Ive tried on multiple drawings, have closed and restarted my computer a number of times, its just now working.

Any ideas what may have happened It worked this morning, and now it wont work at all a tad frustrating for a veteran ACAD user.

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