ems to jpg?

[Retired]

Hi,

After many years of failing in trying to master CAD I am now delighted that I am becoming proficient using the free EMS CAD.

http://www.emachineshop.com/machine-shop...ge100.html

Once again I need some help please; I've been trying for ages to convert ems file to jpeg but so far without success. I've tried the usual save which saves in both ems and bak format; I've tried exporting; I've tried copy and paste into My Documents; My Pictures; Gimp; Paint and many more but non of these programs recognize the ems format? I've tried importing. I can save in my documents but the format is fixed and so far I've been unable to change it to jpeg. I've just drawn a drilling guide for radio back panels which could be useful but I'm unable to convert the file so that forums can read it? At the moment I am using the camera to take a digital image as shown below but ideally an accurate drawing which can be printed out will be much more useful.

I've browsed the web and there are many sites stating they convert ems to jpeg but when I open the sites I find they are not as expected and after my recent problems with Snap.do I'm reluctant to play around too much.

http://convert.software.informer.com/dow...e-to-jpeg/

Can anyone offer advice please how to convert these EMS CAD files to jpeg because I really do like using EMS CAD.

Kind regards, Col.

       

[Refugee]

I have in the past dealt with awkward file types using a screen snapshot utility.
This is how I captured the photo an aerial from Google that can be seen in the military radio section.
Then there is resizing to get close to scale for template printing.
This issue is well covered on VRAT as the forum software does not have automatic resizing on the photo upload system.
I re-size before posting all the time in order to cut down on upload time.
The edit pull-down on most photo editors includes the re-size function that will do just this.
You can Google "screen snapshot" for windows or type it into the search box in Linux update to get screen snapshot software.

[Joe]

Here are a couple of way's 'round it:

Take a screen shot. Press Shift-PrtSc then open Gimp and press Ctrl-V. You can then edit and save it as you like.

The other way would be to install a program which adds a virtual printer which saves as a JPG file. I use one called PDFill, available here: http://www.pdfill.com/

   

- Joe

[AlanBeckett]

Col,

I'm not sure it's actually a logical question.
Presumably the .ems file contains all the 3D Data to construct the 2D screen images which can be viewed from any angle. So, if you were going to convert a .ems File to a 2D .jpg first you'd have to choose a viewing angle and then the Converter would have to construct the 2D view.
A Screen Grab - is probably easiest the edit it in a 'Picture' package. I use Corel.

Alan

[Joe]

Oddly, it'll save 3D images as bitmaps which can easily be converted.

- Joe

[Retired]

Hi,

Many thanks everyone for your replies; I'll study these in more depth shortly as I've been busy in the garage whilst summer lasts.

It's hard work being retired as there simply are not enough hours in a day.

Kind regards, Col.

[John M0GLN]

Hi Col,

I don't know if this will help you or not as I've just realised there might be a slight snag depending on what software your running, I'm on XP with 'Microsoft Picture It! Photo 7.0' and your probably on Windows 7 ? I've done quite a bit of CAD with Autocad but not with eMachineshop so I downloaded the program and made a simple test drawing, as you said this can only be saved as a .ems file so I then went into export and saved it as an 'AutoCAD R12/LT12DXF[.dxf]' which is one of the five options, I was then able to open it with 'Microsoft Picture It! Photo 7.0' and save it as a .jpeg. now I don't know what imaging software you have but if you export it as a .dxf file you can see if you can open it with what you've got.
If you can't open it there is another way to do it and that is to download from Autodesk a free viewer which will let you view the drawing, print it off and possibly save it as a .jpeg if you want, you said you are reluctant to download programs but Autodesk is one of the most reputable websites there is.

Regards

John

[Retired]

Hi,

Thank you John for taking the trouble to add your useful information which I much appreciate and I'll definitely be looking at in a lot of detail shortly.

My head is a bit scrambled at the moment as I've been flying around today. I spent a brilliant morning with David (Yorkie) at Rufforth Auto Jumble where we both grabbed a lot of bargains then this afternoon I've been playing in the garage in fact I've only just knocked off in the hope of updating my Jubilee lathe thread.

Kind regards, Col.

[Retired]

Hi,

I'm certainly no expert on computers and this Win7 64bit is now driving me round the bend.

Previously I've used other operating systems without the slightest trouble and my last computer was running XP Home edition.

I've already posted my problems with Snap.Do hi-jacking my Google Chrome ending up with me wiping the hard drive to completely clear it after firstly suffering lots of frustration.

A couple of days ago having finally got the computer settled and running very well I decided to download Gimp which I've previously used for years without problems; I followed the usual download procedure but it simply refused to load? I gave up but then decided to try Joe's kind suggestion of using PDFill but after a lot of playing around I gave up and switched off. At next boot up Snap.do was laughing at me once again and I was not not amused. Rather than spend hours playing around trying to remove Snap.do I wiped the hard drive again so now I've got the computer up and running once again.

This morning I've tried to install Gimp once again but it refuses and a box pops up saying the location is not recognized but do I want to continue anyway; no I don't because I tried this and got the run around which might possibly account for the second Snap.do invasion.

I've just browsed the web and I'm not sure if Gimp is available for Win7 64bit?

http://registry.gimp.org/node/20997

Following John's kind suggestion I then thought I'd try Microsoft Picture It? Having problems once again I browsed the web and found;

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windo...10b3658832

I bought this new much faster computer with a decent graphics card upgrading to Win7 64bit expecting it to be a huge improvement over my old slower computer running XP; so far I simply cannot settle with it; Programs are suddenly becoming more difficult if not impossible to download and even though I was extremely diligent Snap.Do got in twice to really upset me.

I know I'm no computer wiz kid but this is becoming ridiculous I can't even load Nero which I've used for many years because Nero are demanding paying for an upgrade to Win7? Normally my biggest moan is about our dire weather but at the moment Win7 is running a close second.

This week has been terrible because of computer problems; I admitted it was my fault Snap.Do invaded in the first place but a second invasion?

I've got automatic updates activated so why when I checked for updates this morning it found 15 important updates which seemed to take forever to load? The picture below shows the last update scan and only a short while later (09.38) I was adding the 15 updates including Windows (Malicious Software Removal Tool).

The reason I checked for updates is because with XP I had to download Service Packs 2 & 3 so I wondered by not having these installed I was experiencing so many difficulties; when I browsed the web for the service packs I was directed to Windows Updates on my computer hence I found the 15 updates I downloaded but still no service packs appear in control panel/programs?

Although at the moment I'm fed up spending so much time on the computer and wasting my time getting nowhere I truly appreciate all your help; usually I have lots of patience but Win7 isn't working for me at the moment in fact it appears to be working against me.

I bought this new computer because I was having problems with EMS CAD and the old graphics expecting a vast improvement but here I am still unable to work with EMS CAD as I would like to; perhaps I'm mostly to blame but I'm experiencing lots of computer problems I never previously experienced; perhaps I should revert to XP?

Kind regards, Col.

       

[Retired]

Hi,

WOW; I've now got Gimp on my computer at last.

Kind regards, Col.