[RoboFutbol]

The AutoCAD drawing parts print fine. I have an excel spreadsheet and a pasted image on it though that are not printing well. The excel file is readable but the pasted image is just blotches.

I tried to attach a DWG created in Inventor and can't get it to show up at all on the screen. That is the image that I pasted on through "Copy Current View" in Autodesk Design Review 2011.

I tried printing the drawing in all black; it helped but didn't make it clear. In color the image just barely was visible.

Any help would be appreciated. I am using Vista, AutoCAD Mechanical 2011, Inventor 2011 and Autodesk Design Review 2011.

I do have an older printer but it has always worked fine printing from an XP machine with all the same software on it.

[RICHARD ZASTROW]

Is the magic word "Vista"?????

I was so PO'd with Vista, I put XP PRO SP3 on and no problems since. I don't know if that has anything to do with your problem or not.

Dick Z

[RoboFutbol]

Can anyone tell me why the drawing from Inventor will not show up up when it is attached in AutoCAD?

[RoboFutbol]

OK, solved the issue of Inventor DWG not showing up. Used the "Save Copy As" option and got it to work. "Export" does NOT work.

Now for the Excel file; when I insert it as a OLE Object from file, it doesn't show all the cells. If I copy & paste the cells, they don't print as clear as they should. They are there but not sharp text.

[wages]

see this link:
From the Trenches with Autodesk Inventor: Using a Spreadsheet Table in a Drawing Sheet