Printing autocad projects with attached pictures

Hello all,

Well basically one day I decided to make an Assembly drawing with a
bunch of 2d designs and one 3d design. I made the 3d design in a
different file and rendered. I attached the rendered image into the 2d
drawings but when I print out my drawing it onl shows the 2d drawings
and the little border the image makes when you add it. Why is this
happening? How can I print my drawing with the picture?

-Zaf

 

Which printer/plotter and driver? Does the image show in the plot preview?
Is your plotter capable of handling raster images (i.e., can you print
pictures to it using non-AutoCAD applications?)?
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Or maybe the image is in a not-printable layer. Check it out and make sure
tha the image is in a layer that will be printed in colour (check the plot
style for that layer)


Daletmem

 

AutoCAD 2002 will allow you to set a viewport to display as shaded...
but when it prints it doesn't show the shading. I don't know if later
versions continue this problem.

A work around is to shade the object, then using Print Screen
function of Windows, copy the image to the clipboard. Then you can
past the image into the drawing, and it should print. However, the
AutoCAD drivers for some older plotters, such as the TechJet can't do
images either.