Graphics problem

[Richard Fugazzi]

Hi All,
I have been using a jpeg graphic, an outline of a state, placed on my project board. When I place another jpeg graphic inside the outline and close the frame around it the graphic disappears. If I place it outside the outline of the state, but on the board, it does not.

PLEASE can anyone help this is driving me nuts:(.

Thanks,
Richard

[Major_A]

When was the last time you updated your video card drivers? Get the latest drivers from your manufacturer.
Intel
nVidia
ATi
SiS

If you don't know what video card you have download a utility called GPU-Z and see what it says. You can get that utility from TechPowerUp (http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1095/TechPowerUp_GPU-Z_v0.2.3.html).

Example:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v634/ssb2121/GPU-ZExample.jpg

My manufacturer is nVidia so I would visit http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us and find the appropriate driver.

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This is just a POSSIBLE solution. It could also be a bug with the software itself.

If you are still having problems disable Hardware Acceleration in the Designer software's options.

[mtylerfl]

Hi All,
I have been using a jpeg graphic, an outline of a state, placed on my project board. When I place another jpeg graphic inside the outline and close the frame around it the graphic disappears. If I place it outside the outline of the state, but on the board, it does not.

PLEASE can anyone help this is driving me nuts:(.

Thanks,
Richard

Hello Richard,

I doubt it is a video card problem - most likely it is the graphics themselves and/or the way you are placing them in Designer.

No way we can know for sure, since we cannot see the graphics themselves, nor have a really clear idea of your goal. However, if you have removed all the extranneous parts of each graphic (i.e., erased the area around the jpg you don't want to have carved), then saved each as a separate pattern, you should be able to combine the two on your board.

Depending upon what you are trying to accomplish ...

1) use the height/depth settings to superimpose one graphic over another through experimenting with those settings (that's called "layering")

2) use the Clipping Tool - try Clip Inclusive or Clip Exclusive to make a pattern clip either inside or outside of a "frame" or carve region

3) use the Merge Tool - additive or subtractive to merge two patterns positively or negatively

[sewpeck]

I would guess the 2nd graphic is covering the first one and that's why you don't see it. Only a guess.

[Kenm810]

Richard,

I see you mentioned you are using .jpegs,
if someone forgets to remove the color or white
back ground, When you place one over the other,
it will block out the one behind.