SW Drawings & OLE Objects - What the!!!!

Hello,

I'm running SW 2004 SP4.1 on a Dell M50 with nvidia graphics card.

Has anyone else experienced the following:

Solidworks strips out OLE objects such as jpeg company logos from drawings.
BMP images appear to work fine - JPEG images do not.

User 1 saves drawing with logo in it.
I open same drawing - logo does not appear.
Edit drawing - no bounding box exists where one expects to find logo.

Am I the only one to be experiencing this problem?

Len

 

Is it linked, instead of Embedded?

Regards,
SCott

 

I've seen this same problem in previous versions-- we gave up on using
jpegs.

 

OLE objects require an application (image viewer of some sort, Paintbrush as
an example) to be present that can act as an OLE Server to present the
object for the application (in your case Solid Works) that they are embedded
in. It sounds as though the application that displays JPEG files on your PC
cannot act as that OLE server.

Ken

 

It has been cut-and-pasted into the template.
Len

 

You didn't use the Insert/Object to insert it into the tempalte? I would do
it that away and make sure you have an active Application that recognizes it
on your system. Like described by Ken's post.

Regards,
Scott