AutoCAD Drawings with photo backgrounds

[Brian Chaille]

I seem to have trouble importing AutoCAD drawings that include X-referenced (attached) aerial photographs as drawing backgrounds. It seems that I can bring in the line work or the attached photo, but not both at the same time. I understand that currently StormNET can support only one imported background file at a time, but there are times we really need both CAD line work on a photobackground. I am hopefull that a single CAD file may be able to fool StormNET into showing both at the same time. What do you suggest or what can you do to help with this?

[Debajit Basu Ray]

Hi,

I could successfully import one AutoCAD drawing file (DWG) which includes an aerial photograph attached.

I attached the aerial photograph to the AutoCAD drawing from the menu "Insert/ Raster Image" in AutoCAD and saved that drawing. After that I imported the saved DWG file in StormNET and StormNET imported the new DWG file (with attached aerial photo) successfully.

Please put both the DWG file and the aerial photograph in the same location (folder) to import into the StormNET.

If you have any questions please contact us.

Thanks,

Debajit Basu Ray
debajit@bossintl.com

[Brian Chaille]

Thanks, with the photo file referenced in the same directory both linework and photo display as desired.

A way of allowing files to be referenced from other directories would be a nice improvement in the future.

[ben34]

I tried the above referenced method and the image came in correctly. my only issue is that i cannot see the lines from the drawing (dwg) over the image. I know the lines are there but the only thing visible is the image. i tried to set draworder in autocad but that didn't chagnge anything. I also made sure that the layers are on in stormnet. any suggestions?

[Chris Maeder]

There is a small issue with the CAD engine library that we have, where at times it does not place the image below the AutoCAD drawing data. We have informed the developer of the CAD engine library about this issue.

I know that the latest release of StormNET (available on our website) corrects this problem for some drawings, but not all drawings. Please make certain you have the latest release of StormNET installed.

[Rich Schaff]

In the original CAD file, did you send the image frame to back?