Attaching a .ECW file to a .DWG file 1

[aml78363]

Can anyone help me in attaching a .ecw file format to a .dwg file format.

I am working on AutoCAD 2005. I have an aerial picture of an area with the buildings which is a .ECW file format,and i need to attach that to the autocad which is a .DWG file format and draw the top view of all the buildings on the aerail and post it on my website.When i am attaching and saving the file on the cd only the autocad is appearing and not the aerial but i need the aerial as a background to my autocad file such that the autocad file is on top of the aerial so that when anyone opens the figure both the aerail and the autocad should appear.
Can anyone help me on how to attach both the files onto one file and save it on the cd.

 

[Exxit]

Hi,

you have to convert the file into a BMP, TIFF, RLE, JPG, PCX und TGA... file. Press the F1-key and look after the "_image" command...

L.

ADT 2004
ACAD 2002

 

[chicopee]

Once you have convert it to one of the extensions proposed by exxit, dont forget to scale your image in model space, as you will find out any dimension taken from your image will be much smaller than the dimension of the feature in your image.

 

[graphix1]

ECW is Easy Cad for Windows. If you have access to the source ask them for a DXF version which you can then import into auto cad easily.

graphix1

 

[VMichl]

The ECW raster format was meant probably. There are ECW plugins for AutoCAD.
See

http://www.xanadu.cz/en/download.asp?file=ECW

Vladimir Michl