I have a part that I attached a decal to. When I open the file on my machine the decal shows up both in the drawing and on the solid. My colleague across the isle just gets a black square where the decal is supposed to be. Any help would be appreciated.
Brad, the other possibility is that the image file is somehow missing on your colleague's computer--or not really being transferred with the file. Can they create the same decal you created (as a test) if the image file is provided to them? If not, it would seem the problem lies with your colleague's system (as Mark indicated). If so, it most likely lies with a fault in how the file was saved or communicated to your colleague's computer.
Thanks for the input guys. I have an XP X64 system. The system experiencing problems is a 32 bit machine so this may be the problem. The other I will try is that it is a rather large file saved to 600 dpi so I will try and downsize the pic and see if that works. Thanks for all your help.
Brad,
Without having a lot of details on your situation, I have seen this before when your out of system memory. If the decal is really high resolution, and SW is taking a lot of your system resources (memory) this could be the case. Of course there could be a hundred other reasons for this, but this would be the first thing I'd check; are you able to reproduce this on a SW x64 system with lots of memory verse 32bit?
Mark