Can anybody make logos in DXF format?

Bryan Kortez

Bryan Kortez

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I have been working on start my own company over the last few weeks. I am in the middle of trying to sort a logo out to go in the 2D drawing borders in a DXF format.

Has anybody here got the ability to create logos in DXF or to be able to convert a logo for say JPEG to DXf?
 
Basically it's to go in the borders I have created for my work. I draw in 3D then have to export to 2D plan views.

This is a section of the border containing job information and I was going to contain a logo. For now I Just added a text field and hatched it. I want to create a better looking logo and import it into the borders some now.

image.jpg
 
It's quite hard to get a jpg to stay in AutoCAD though, isn't it? I find it links files a lot and then you move the drawing and you've lost your file...could be me being stupid, though!

We just have our logo built into our template. I think it was once a jpg that was just recreated in AutoCAD.
 
I use a mixture of software, but it doesn't allow for importing jpegs in DXFs.

I think I have an older version of autocad somewhere, so I may give it a quick go of tracing over the Jpeg to create lines and arcs. No big deal for now, as long as I have some kind of logo in the border for now it will do.

Will just work on a good logo for the website/invoices etc
 
dirtychinchilla said:
It's quite hard to get a jpg to stay in AutoCAD though, isn't it? I find it links files a lot and then you move the drawing and you've lost your file...could be me being stupid, though!

We just have our logo built into our template. I think it was once a jpg that was just recreated in AutoCAD.
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Nope, as long as you 'bind' or 'etransmit' the drawings to customers inclusing all xrefs, blocks, images and .pdf's then there's never a problem!

just don't move the jpg from it's stored location (or just stick it in the same directory as the drawing, cos AutoCAD looks here too!)

95% of my drawings are made up from Blocks, Xrefs, Images and .pdf inserts! only rarely do I have a problem! :)

You could always try sticking the .jpg through Cometdocs to convert it! but this can be hit and miss!!!

Failing that I have, in the past, created a Logo from scratch in CorelDraw and exported to .dwg/dxf

It's personal preference!! :)
 
I hate that, though. It's really not practical for me to be sending ten different files just to be able to view one thing. Why they can't just absorb them into the .dwg file or whatever, I can't understand.

Bryan, feel free to PM me the logo and I'll take a look.
 
Yeah, I can't be dealing with any Xrefs etc. Got to keep it simple for the people I send the drawings to :p

Thanks, I'll finish off the one I was working on and send it your way :)
 
Jpegs in autocad:

you could always copy the image to your clipboard, edit \ paste special \ device independent bitmap.

Your resulting image might not be of the highest quality though. Depends on how detailed it is.
If all you have is some flashy text, why don't you import the jpeg, trace it (or find a font you can manipulate to fit) and turn it into a proper autocad object that's part of your title block template?

This is what I have to do with pretty much all of our clients logos that need to be on our drawings. It usually entails ripping their logo from their website then faffing about with autocad until something respectable appears. To match the colours I look for the RGB colour numbers using paints Idropper then entering the appropriate numbers into the select colour \ truecolour dialog in cad.


Trouble with Xrefing images is that they don't bind to the cad drawing. You always have to etransmit them with their supporting relative folder structure for them to display correctly and not just leave a file path link to show the missing image.
 
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