Option to embed jpeg logos in exported dwgs

[ipselute]

All so often people are deleting logos (small jpegs) found in the same folder as exported drawings from Revit to dwg. Other times, admins are moving the entire folder all together, rendering the logos' hyperlinks useless (because the logos filepaths are absolute and Autocad can't handle relative paths instead of absolute).

Also, when the logos filepath is very long, Autocad and/or Windows can't handle it right and doesn't show the logos in the dwg.

So, we have to export all drawings again from Revit  to dwg, just to rebuild the logos hyperlinks. That's kinda stupid and time consuming. Tekla is embedding logos directly into dwg. That's the only foolproof method to keep the logos right.

I know Autodesk doesn't advice to embed large pictures in Autocad, but what about the logos ? Logos are small and are bitmaps. Revit and Autocad handles bitmaps the same way.

[bill_gilliss]

And... it would be great if Revit itself would embed raster images, of any size. It already saves renderings of ANY size with the project, so how much harder can it be to store other raster images?

[TripleM-Dev.net]

@Anonymous, Images are saved in the Revit Project/Family itself.

The reference in Manage Images just can't be used to reloaded/update the image. (or use the Reload From option.)

[ipselute]

I found a workaround (kinda) for this. I vectorized my logos by using Adobe Illustrator or Inkscape. Inkscape not so good at it. Saved it as svg, then dxf, then dwg. Finally i created a block from all those logo lines and hatches. Created an entire titleblock in Autocad, and i imported it in a titleblock family template in Revit. Finally, i saved that template as a custom-made .rfa file and loaded it into my project. It works like a charm. Now i'm exporting Revit sheets to Autocad and all the logos are treated as Autocad blocks. Because blocks are scalable (they are vector graphics, not raster images like jpeg logos).