Image in custom title block

[cad3na]

I've watched the Quick Tip video for creating custom title blocks like a million and a half times, and I just can't seem to get the image showing... Could it be related to me having an older version of Autocad? I'll leave you some pics:

Am I missing something?

I'll also leave the Autocad drawing used to design the title block, just in case someone can replicate my results and figures out what I'm doing wrong.

Thanks in advance!

[CEDSTUDIO-1]

We are also having the same issue with the image not showing up. Hoping this is solved soon. Cheers!

[shuklav]

The logo image xref path in the drawing Drawing2.dwg is \Users\roberto\DAMAR Instalaciones\Interno\Imagen\Logotipo\Versiones Imagenes\Final\Logotipo DAMAR-120.png. Please check if the image exists at this location on your system where you have Fusion 360 installed. If image does not exists at this location you can set the new path in the 'XREF' dialog in AutoCAD. Preferably set the path type as relative. Save the drawing and now try to insert the title block in Fusion 360 using the saved drawing.

If this doesn't work try copying the image to the same folder where the dwg is located.

[cad3na]

Negative.

The image was definitely on the correct location, regardless I've tried putting a copy of the image on the same location as the DWG, and attaching it with:

* Full path

* Relative path

* No path

None of these options worked. I'm thinking that this might be a bug, but I don't want to jump to conclussions (specially since I'm not that good of a developer myself).

Thanks anyway for the reply, if you or another person has any other idea I'll keep trying them.

[cad3na]

I received an automated email today telling me to accept an answer to help the community, so I thought I would speak up.

This question is not answered yet!

I dont know if this question is not interesting, or perhaps it is a bug, and the community is expecting someone from Autodesk to reply.

Any way, I will not keep trying to bring anymore attention to this if there is no answer.

[HughesTooling]

The help states no XRefs are allowed and I suspect your image would be considered an XRef. Is there any way to embed the image in the DWG so it's no longer an XRef.

http://help.autodesk.com/view/fusion360/ENU/?guid=GUID-AA1736E9-C0EF-4F40-8788-C53DFD6EC09E

Mark

Edit As I don't have AutoCAD I just did a quick test using QCad and an image added to a title block imported fine but I'm guessing QCad is embedding the image.

[cad3na]

Well, I'm attaching the image via the command IMAGEATTACH as it is required in the article, with every combination of arguments I could try.

If there is another way to attach the image I will gladly try it.

Thanks for your response Mark!

Edit in answer to your edit: I was thinking just that, but I don't know a way to embed the image in the Autocad file, funny that a third party app can do it better. I will do a fast research in this regard just to be safe, but if I can easily just do it with another software, I'll take it.

[HughesTooling]

@cmiller66 any suggestions on how to embed an image in AutoCAD?

Mark

[cmiller66]

Hi Mark,

You can't embed an image in AutoCAD.  For this case (a logo in a titleblock), IMAGEATTACH should work.

Hi robblack00_7

The path to the missing image is: \Users\roberto\DAMAR Instalaciones\Interno\Imagen\Logotipo\Versiones Imagenes\Final\Logotipo DAMAR-120.png, Can you simplfy this a bit as a test, and then maybe we can narrow the problem down.

1.  Copy your title block dwg to your desktop

2.  Copy Logotipo DAMAR-120.png to your desktop

3.  Use IMAGEATTACH in the drawing and re-attach the image > Save the dwg

4.  Now with the DWG and Image still on your desktop, use Insert Title Block in Fusion.

I can repro a similar issue to yours if I use IMAGEATTACH then move, rename, or delete the image.  The original image needs to be in the correct location for the DWG to find it.  I see you're on Mac, it's possible there's an issue on Mac with (relatively) long image paths, but I'll need to try that (currently don't have AutoCAD installed on a Mac).

One other question which *could* be leading to an issue is, what language/OS are you using?

Thanks,
Chris

[cad3na]

Since the last commentary from Mark, I also thought of it being a problem with the PATH, and how it was written; so I moved the files to a directory in my root folder.

I did another test just to be sure, my PATH is as follows:

/Users/roberto/temp/test.dwg (Title block)

/Users/roberto/temp/logo.png (Image)

and the PATH of the image as reported in the Reference Manager

./logo.png

Just to make it as simple as possible, this time I didn't add any text, nor I changed the color of the stroke of the image; just attached the image, saved and tried to insert it in Fusion.

Just to reiterate, I didn't move any file since the creation of the DWG, I saved it on the directory "temp", I attached the image, I saved, and I tried to insert the DWG.

Regarding your second question, I use macOS in spanish (as it is the regional default for Mexico City) and Autocad 2015 in english. Could it be a problem with Autocad 2015? If that was the case I could just download the newest version of Autocad and install it (I have an Educator account).

Any way, I thank your response and your time in advance for reading this long explanation. I'll wait eagerly for your response.

PS: I'll repost the new file and the image, just in case it has something to do with the image that I'm using.

[cmiller66]

Hi robblack00_7,

Thanks for the files and details.  Can you confirm that this is what you're doing:

1.  With the dwg and image on your (system) desktop > Launch Fusion > Start a new drawing

2.  In the drawing environment, expand Sheet Settings > Title Block > Insert Title Block...

3.  Browse to the location of the DWG > Select it > Open

4.  The drawing should now be updated with your image/titleblock

5.  In the Toolbar > Output > Output Drawing Template > Save to your project (now you can re-use for new drawings without swapping the titleblock every time).

After doing this, I'm seeing different behavior than shown in your screen capture.  I have a single new Template item added to the data panel with no separate item for logo.png like you're seeing.  Did you manually upload this to your project?

Thanks,

Chris

[cad3na]

Yes, what I have been doing is:

1.- I have Fusion already open working on other projects

2.- Open the file for the template I was trying to create

3.- Going to Sheet settings > Insert Title Block ...

4.- Browsing to my DWG with the Title block.

5.- The drawing is updated, but never does it appear to have the image loaded (I know it is updated because I usually load another titleblock just to see Fusion load the new titleblock although without the image).

6.- Some times I try to export to PDF (just in case it is rendered just in the PDF output and not in Fusion) but never actually displays the image.

This time I actually created a new drawing (as you described it this way) from the project I'm working on and it is the same case:

So again, just to reiterate, yes I'm following the procedure you described.

Answering the last thing, Yes I did uploaded the image manually, thinking that the PDF might be done in the cloud and it needed to have the image in the folder and somehow everybody forgot to mention it (I know, I know... I'm losing my mind), but obviously that didn't worked either.

Thank you for your replies Chris, it seems to me I have hogged too much of your time already.

[cmiller66]

Hey, no worries, it's what I'm here for...  Honestly this seems like a bug to me, and it would be good to track it down.  Let me ask around here and see if anyone has any other ideas.

What OSx are you using?  And I'm assuming your AutoCAD is installed side-by-side on the same system as Fusion?

For what it's worth, when I copied your files to my Mac desktop (10.12.4) it worked as expected, but this is standalone Fusion on a clean machine.

Thanks,
Chris

[cad3na]

I work on an iMac running macOS Sierra (version 10.12.4), I install Fusion through the Mac App Store and installed Autocad 2015 from the Education community downloads page.

I don't know which information about my system is relevant, but I'm available to reach through this medium for whatever information you might need.

Thanks for the help, and keep up the good work! You're killing it!

[cmiller66 · Accepted solution]

Hi Roberto,

Thanks for the clarification, and I could finally reproduce the problem.  It looks like a limitation with the Mac App Store (MAS) version, not the version of AutoCAD where the dwg was created (although the path to the image could be another contributing factor).  We should handle this better, and I will log a bug to get this fixed.

In the meantime, what I tried (and it worked for me), copy the titleblock drawing and logo.png to your Downloads folder.  This is a location that the app store version can fully access (MAS apps handle things like download/upload differently).  Please let me know if that works for you.  Another option would be to download the Fusion 360 Mac build directly from Autodesk.com.  

Thanks,
Chris

[cad3na]

That worked for me!

Now I'll work on the getting the title block as I want it although I don't expect any problem since it was the location of the image in my computer and not Autocad.

Thanks for the help, I think this setup is fine for now, specially since I only have to do the template once, and afterwards I don't need to have the image in the Downloads folder (correct me if I'm wrong). I'll be happy to assist with anymore information you might need to sort this out, although I think you've zero'ed out the problem to something not related to my particular setup, I'd be glad to help out anyway.

As I told you before, I hope you pass out the congratulations on your work to the team and keep up the good work.

[joeystreet_wst]

Hello,

Is there any way of attaching an image in a custom title block where there is NO border in the fusion 360 environment?