Importing images from a CAD system

[Gagne, Bernard (Bolton)]

I am in the process of educating the engineers I work with over this issue.
They are in the habit of giving me a JPEG image when I request a line
drawing. JPEG was never intended for anything other than continuous tone
images. When a line drawing gets exported to a JPEG, the line quality
suffers horribly.
I ask them to export to CGM, which I import into Adobe Illustrator and
convert to either EPS or leave as a native AI file. The resulting file can
then be imported into Frame just fine and I don't lose on the line quality
or scalability.

Berny Gagné
Lead Technical Writer
Husky Injection Molding Systems
Bolton, Ontario, Canada 


-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+bgagne=husky.ca at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+bgagne=husky.ca at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of
Gillian Flato
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 2:06 PM
To: b_downing at verizon.net; framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: RE: Importing images from a CAD system

Bill,


The hardware tech writers at my company use Solidworks creations in their
Frame docs. They told me that they don't use the DXF file because they are
so large. Our engineers create them for 11 x 17 paper. They always convert
the DXF file to a high-res JPEG and then import to Frame and scale it down.
So yes, they lose the vector. 


Thanks,

Gillian Flato



-----Original Message-----
From: framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com
[mailto:framers-bounces+gflato=nanometrics.com at lists.frameusers.com] On
Behalf Of b_downing at verizon.net
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2006 10:15 AM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Importing images from a CAD system

I have a project where I may need to import wireframe images (basically,
perspective line drawings) from a Solidworks CAD system into a Frame 7.0
document. Assuming that vector format will produce the best resolution, has
anyone had any problems importing DXF images directly into Frame? Or is it
better to convert to another format first? 

Thanks,

-Bill Downing
b_downing at verizon.net
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