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AutoCAD Drawings from Raster Images: A Power Tip

by R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group When you do a paper to CAD conversion, the input document is often a scanned paper print (also known as a “raster image file”). It is usually in TIFF, JPEG, BMP or PDF format. You will usually attach the raster image file to a new AutoCAD…

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Previewing or Plotting Certain Layouts Makes AutoCAD HANG!!

By R. Kamalathasan, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group We experienced another strange problem in AutoCAD this week. THE PROBLEM We received a base plan file from our client with several layouts and xref files to attach. After finishing work on the drawing we tried to plot the file and found that… AutoCAD hangs during…