How to export to dwg with image binding

[Anonymous]

Hi,

How do I export to dwg with images binded into one file rather than separate files?

Thanks

[L.Maas]

There is no setting to bind images during export. They are exported as linked files.

A solution would be to correct this in Autocad

[Anonymous]

Hi Enlint,

So I have to double Etransmit?....I checked AutoCad Etransmit setting with bind but I get a folder with all reference files.

[ToanDN]

You can't even bind raster images in AutoCAD except for using OLE, which is
the entire different mechanism. I don't see how Revit can do it.

What's wrong with external image files?

[ipselute]

How about creating a family in Revit, insert all the logos as OLE in that family, load that family in your project, and then export to Autocad ? Would that be exported as a Autocad block with embedded images ? I know it doesn't work in Titleblock families, but still, perhaps it could work in other types of families.

Is there any tehnical option to create that logos as region masks, i mean like having the logo image mapped as single tile or something?

[ToanDN]

Revit have no idea what an OLE is.

[colleenc8732L]

I need to be able to do this for creating Record Drawings. I need to supply CAD to the client, and any external images must be binded in the CAD drawing.  I have several details that use existing building drawings as images to scale in Revit. It will take too much time to find the images, copy+paste them from paint to turn them into OLEs and scale them. Does anyone have a better solution for this?  

[KarineTKD]

I suggest you take a look at ProSheets - Diroots Plugin and download it directly from their official website.

They have an option to select during DWG export that you can Bind images as OLE objects.
Now, unfortunately, this feature is in the premium package, but while it was in beta phase, I tested it and it works very well. I made sheets with more than 20 images and it really worked.

Compatible with Autodesk Revit versions 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, and 2025.

I only recommend that during the Bind Image process, you do not do anything else on your PC. Because in each sheet that the plugin is making, it opens Autocad very quickly and can take some of the information that you are writing in another program during the process and put it in the dwg file. 😅
So, take this time to get a coffee. ☕

Another tip, don't have other Autocad files open without saving, because the plugin can close the program without the save message.

All this happens only when the OLE option is selected. Otherwise, there is no problem in doing other things while the plugin works.

[RELayton]

This has been a question since 2017?  We battle this CONSTANTLY when creating record drawings.  Come on Autodesk!  Write some code to correct this.......isn't that what you do?

While you're at it write some code to make sheet layout more precise.  It's not all about the model!  Most of us are creating Constrution Documents.