Based on your description, it's not behaving like an XREF, despite showing up in External References palette. What's in the folder alongside the Google Earth.jpg?
Are you able to open the image using the default Windows image viewer or using Adobe acrobat? What does it look like when you open it using an image viewer?
Chicagolooper
Hmmm...that's a strange one.
I'm wondering whether, RELOAD would've worked just as well as detach/reattach.
Chicagolooper
Are the 'Not Found" images from Captured Areas derived Bing aerial maps?
If they are, they should only be used for reference, not for deliverables. Captured images don't cooperate. They don't appear in the Xref palette. Why?
And their borders don't behave like xrefs. If you grab the corner of a captured image you can increase (or decrease) the image's coverage area and that's not xref behavior. Did you really capture an image or did you just define the extents so only a portion is displayed while others portions become hidden?
Various images at many locations can be downloaded at no charge. Since they are available for public viewing without any expectation of payment and download without any offer to pay for those images, the user is free to use them. As long a user DOESN'T claim they're something they're not, such as a 'This is a survey ,' the user is safe.
Chicagolooper
@ChicagoLooper wrote:Are the 'Not Found" images from Captured Areas derived Bing aerial maps?
If they are, they should only be used for reference, not for deliverables. Captured images don't cooperate. They don't appear in the Xref palette. Why?
And their borders don't behave like xrefs. If you grab the corner of a captured image you can increase (or decrease) the image's coverage area and that's not xref behavior. Did you really capture an image or did you just define the extents so only a portion is displayed while others portions become hidden?
Various images at many locations can be downloaded at no charge. Since they are available for public viewing without any expectation of payment and download without any offer to pay for those images, the user is free to use them. As long a user DOESN'T claim they're something they're not, such as a 'This is a survey ,' the user is safe.
For me, this is what happens right after I get the Online Maps dialog asking if it's OK to sign in to use them.
And yes, I did the Capture Area of the Bing maps that's part of the GEOMAPs feature. The image itself is a Geomap Image object type that behaves the way you described.
@Neilw_05 I've had this issue too.
I typically extract screenshots from my Infraworks model and put them in a drawing for submission. For the next project I thought I'd use the last drawing I produced as it was set up correctly with the jpgs located and scaled correctly and that it was simply a matter of repathing the new jpgs but I got the unreadable message so I had to revert back to first principles.
neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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This looks complicated.
Maybe you could simplify it by putting everything in the cloud.
I understand that is where all the cool kids hang out.
😁
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