Why must our Polish client send CAD drawings in .bmp?

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
08/21/2018 at 10:27 • Filed to: shitposting

...not sure if with Polandball gif I have answered my own question.

DISCUSSION (18)

fintail > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 10:35

Every now and then at work, an internal department sends me a little table with some data to review. Instead of copying and pasting the table into the email (so I can copy and paste the relevant data), they take a snip of their table, and drop the image into the email. Makes me want to reach through the interwebs and wring a neck.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > fintail
08/21/2018 at 10:41

BT;DT. I have also received CAD drawings that are done with the image tools in Word. Other drawings that are generated in off-brand CAD packages, others still sent in PDF when they could easily have been sent as .dwg, and copy-pasted clips from Paint. Sometimes scans with SCRIBBLE SCRIBBLE in Paint.

This? This is a perfectly adequate drawing. It just happens to be a >2MB .bmp, because of reasons.

Bman76 (hates WS6 hoods, is on his phone and has 4 burners now) > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 10:48

I feel your pain:

https://oppositelock.kinja.com/today-s-fun-1828489913

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 10:49

I hate it when contracts specify “in electronic format” for the deliverables and contractors submit images (TIF, BMP, etc.) or PDFs so they meet the letter of the contract. Inevitably, this garbage deliverable is handed over to me and we spend another 100 hours not budgeted in our contract to convert the data.

Ash78, voting early and often > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 10:52

POLISH BOOK OF AMERICAN IDIOMS

“I will send it to you in a jif!” = “I will convey an item to you promptly!”

If file takes too long, I should change the format.

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 10:53

This is a Test. This is a Test only...

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck
08/21/2018 at 10:57

I have, numerous times, put images with lack of measurements that I know were generated in a CAD program accurately into my software and meticulously dicked with the SCALE command until I could get to an acceptable precision match. Then, tracing things they drew.

I have also used the Acrobat measuring tool to size things based on other things to get close sometimes. The (“hilarious”) thing is, AutoCAD can output things to PDF with matching units to itself, meaning that the measurement tool in Acrobat will then give me either metric or Imperial exact measurements... I’m usually not that lucky.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media
08/21/2018 at 10:57

Had this been a real reply, it would have had a funny gif. Maybe.

Nibbles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 11:02

Screenshots of SQL output. Special characters copied into queries, outputting gibberish. Never sending server information so I have to do legwork myself to find out where the problem lies. These are just a handful of the problems I deal with on a daily basis.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > Nibbles
08/21/2018 at 11:04

I am fortunate in that my only regular interaction with anything SQL is that it’s used for searches in our parts database program. Said program is a horrifying kludge, but the search works okay.

Nibbles > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 11:05

I never wanted to be a DBA but, here I am, becoming one :|

nerd_racing > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 11:10

at least send a .tif

TheRealBicycleBuck > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 11:21

I often have to georeference information that is sent to us. It’s part of the reason that if I have a hand in the specifications, I require three points on every sheet with geographic coordinates. That makes it so much easier to reference into other drawings.

There are some tools out there for “automatically” converting PDF to CAD or GIS. The line following is pretty good and they do a fair job of splitting the linework into layers, but it all depends on how the original files were converted to PDF. Sometimes it’s no better than a scanned image.

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > TheRealBicycleBuck
08/21/2018 at 11:29

Yeah, if the PDF was generated the sane way for “images” (vector lines) then it’s no problem. Raster? Hoo boy.

What I do normally usually needs to be accurate to the half inch, which means I can’t pull helpful outside references like that . I did recently dabble in an architectural/land project , but had only a scan of a plat from over twenty years ago, and none of the four markers remained. I had to get it roughly accurate based on a utility pole... and of the two utility poles, one had been moved. Ah, and the plat was over a half a degree out of square due to the scanning.

fintail > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 11:39

Why do things the easy way when making them stupidly complicated will do?

SilentButNotReallyDeadly...killed by G/O Media > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/21/2018 at 17:56

You get no such validation from me with that attitude, Sonny!

pip bip - choose Corrour > RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
08/22/2018 at 08:11

what is .bmp?

RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht > pip bip - choose Corrour
08/22/2018 at 09:11

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitmap

Uncompressed image file, like used to be the default saved by MS Paint... in Windows 98. There’s no detail that would have been lost by it being a jpeg, and no reason not to use lossless compression if it had to be an image file, but being an image in the first place is also very weird. And primitive.