Need Help with Image!

[EJMartinez]

Hello everyone,

Let me see if I can explain this clearly. I am about to turn in a few projects. I have to turn in everything using a DVD-R disc. One question that i really need help is the image I am using for the project. I am trying to turn it in with the image attach on. The problem is that the image has a path that goes to my computer to find the image. Another problem is that the image I am using is about 6.5 GB. I am only using a little area from this big image i got. I clip it in AutoCAD Civil 3d but it still has the 6.5GB. I am using Civil 3D 2012. I inserted the image using command MAPIINS. Image is an ecw file. I want to clip the image to the right file size to send off.

[entropist]

If you set all xrefs to relative paths, the links will work fine from any source.

I've never had to learn to clip images, but if you use a double layer DVD the image should fit as is.

[EJMartinez]

Yea I set the image xref path to the right path I wanted. Its just the image is too big to send. Probably going to have to just send It using a big enough USB flash drive.

[Neilw_05]

If you really want to clip the image you should be able to de-compress it to a TIF or JPG using a utility from the makers of the ECW compression engine (ER-MAPPER?) and clip it with Raster Design or any other image editing software that supports georeferencing.

[antoniovinci]

EJ,

I advise you to clip the huge ECW in a third-party Gis software (e.g. Qgis).

Doing so, you'll get a small georeferenced image, definitely portable by email...

[EJMartinez]

Will it work or is there a way to crop the image in AutoCAD Civil 3D 2012 or AutoCAD Map 3D 2012?