title block logo?

[Anonymous]

Greetings troops,
I have created my own template for my drawings. It's size was about 40k.
However, I made a small logo to place in the title block. It's size was 8k.
I copied and pasted into my template, and the template's size jumped to
415k!
What is the proper procedure for adding your logo to title blocks? Is
there a file format it should be converted to first? How can a half inch
logo become 415k? A half a meg blank drawing is not acceptable. If it
matters, the little logo was created in a program called Xara. Also have
CorelDraw, but have not tried bringing in a logo from it. I am using R7,
which I really don't understand lack of import capability. Also have old 2.1
version at work, that had import feature. We use SolidWorks mainly, but that
old 2.1 still is handy for a quick sketch. Maybe some insight on the
paste/paste special in R7 would be useful.
Thanks for any thoughts. Have a good weekend.
Mike

[Anonymous]

Smoke wrote:

> Greetings troops,
> I have created my own template for my drawings. It's size was about 40k.
> However, I made a small logo to place in the title block. It's size was 8k.
> I copied and pasted into my template, and the template's size jumped to
> 415k!
> What is the proper procedure for adding your logo to title blocks? Is
> there a file format it should be converted to first? How can a half inch
> logo become 415k? A half a meg blank drawing is not acceptable. If it
> matters, the little logo was created in a program called Xara. Also have
> CorelDraw, but have not tried bringing in a logo from it. I am using R7,
> which I really don't understand lack of import capability. Also have old 2.1
> version at work, that had import feature. We use SolidWorks mainly, but that
> old 2.1 still is handy for a quick sketch. Maybe some insight on the
> paste/paste special in R7 would be useful.
> Thanks for any thoughts. Have a good weekend.
> Mike

If you have AutoCAD, try opening the logo in it, exploding it, purge and save.
reopen in AutoSketch.

AutoSketch SKF format is fat, much fatter than say a DWG file. I found that an
SKF file can be 4 to 5 times the size of a DWG (or the old Drafix CAD format).

Another option would be to save the file as DWG format and then reopen the DWG
file with AutoSketch and see if skinnies up the file.

--
Len Rafuse
Vision Engineering

[Anonymous]

Len,
Thanks for the reply. Not having AutoCad here, I tried many different
scenarios yesterday. The best I have been able to come up with so far, is to
save the logo as a jpg., and then using "Insert object" feature of R7. This
brought the template size down from 415 to just over 200K.
Saving the file as .dwg did not do much of anything, and for those
interested, .wmf turned a template into a whopping four meg file! It seems
there are not many other options as far as formats that can be imported into
7. I'll wait for the Monday crowd to shuffle back in, perhaps they will have
more ideas. For now, I'm pleased I got it down from 400 to 200, without any
loss to quality when printing.
Thanks again,
Mike
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[Anonymous]

If you want to email the file directly to me I can run it through an AutoCAD
explode and purge and see if it makes any smaller
--
Len Rafuse
Vision Engineering

Smoke wrote:

> Len,
> Thanks for the reply. Not having AutoCad here, I tried many different
> scenarios yesterday. The best I have been able to come up with so far, is to
> save the logo as a jpg., and then using "Insert object" feature of R7. This
> brought the template size down from 415 to just over 200K.
> Saving the file as .dwg did not do much of anything, and for those
> interested, .wmf turned a template into a whopping four meg file! It seems
> there are not many other options as far as formats that can be imported into
> 7. I'll wait for the Monday crowd to shuffle back in, perhaps they will have
> more ideas. For now, I'm pleased I got it down from 400 to 200, without any
> loss to quality when printing.
> Thanks again,
> Mike
> "L. Rafuse" wrote in message
> news:3AB1E2C0.5FD2F51F@wn.net...

[Anonymous]

As an image, I am surprised that you can get the file size down. If you do need
to transfer to AutoCAD in the future or want to reduce the file size more, your
best bet would be to redraw the image in AutoSketch so that it is made up of
AutoSketch entities rather than a jpeg file.
--
Len Rafuse
Vision Engineering

Smoke wrote:

> Len,
> Thanks for the reply. Not having AutoCad here, I tried many different
> scenarios yesterday. The best I have been able to come up with so far, is to
> save the logo as a jpg., and then using "Insert object" feature of R7. This
> brought the template size down from 415 to just over 200K.
> Saving the file as .dwg did not do much of anything, and for those
> interested, .wmf turned a template into a whopping four meg file! It seems
> there are not many other options as far as formats that can be imported into
> 7. I'll wait for the Monday crowd to shuffle back in, perhaps they will have
> more ideas. For now, I'm pleased I got it down from 400 to 200, without any
> loss to quality when printing.
> Thanks again,
> Mike
> "L. Rafuse" wrote in message
> news:3AB1E2C0.5FD2F51F@wn.net...

[Anonymous]

This could be the same issue that I have experienced with AS7 with copy and
paste. I upgraded my RAM to 640MB and page file to 1GB because some cut and
paste operations were increasing my memory usage so drastically that my
system was crashing. File sizes were what you are experiencing in the 500KB
range but if I looked at task manager memory usage with the file open they
were taking up to 600MB of memory. If I then copied and pasted something
from that drawing to another open drawing it would jump another 600MB to
over 1GB. Anyway there is no help here. I, and others, have been posting
this issue since the version was released and we have gotten squat.
John

"Smoke" wrote in message
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> Greetings troops,
> I have created my own template for my drawings. It's size was about
40k.
> However, I made a small logo to place in the title block. It's size was
8k.
> I copied and pasted into my template, and the template's size jumped to
> 415k!
> What is the proper procedure for adding your logo to title blocks? Is
> there a file format it should be converted to first? How can a half inch
> logo become 415k? A half a meg blank drawing is not acceptable. If it
> matters, the little logo was created in a program called Xara. Also have
> CorelDraw, but have not tried bringing in a logo from it. I am using R7,
> which I really don't understand lack of import capability. Also have old
2.1
> version at work, that had import feature. We use SolidWorks mainly, but
that
> old 2.1 still is handy for a quick sketch. Maybe some insight on the
> paste/paste special in R7 would be useful.
> Thanks for any thoughts. Have a good weekend.
> Mike
>

[Anonymous]

Thanks for the input John. Something definetly amiss for sure! In the
meantime I'll stick with my present method of madness.
Mike
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