{"id":126,"date":"2008-05-06T18:28:47","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T12:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/126.htm"},"modified":"2020-04-04T15:06:12","modified_gmt":"2020-04-04T09:36:12","slug":"autocad-drawings-from-raster-images-a-power-tip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagnumgroup.net\/Blog\/autocad-drawings-from-raster-images-a-power-tip\/","title":{"rendered":"AutoCAD Drawings from Raster Images: A Power Tip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><small><em><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\">by <strong>R. Kamalathasan<\/strong>, Assistant Manager (Projects), The Magnum Group<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><big><strong>When you do a paper to CAD conversion<\/strong><\/big>, the input document is often a scanned paper print (also known as a \u201craster image file\u201d). It is usually in TIFF, JPEG, BMP or PDF format.<strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>You will usually attach the raster image file<\/strong> to a new AutoCAD drawing and start tracing over it. You may sometimes get frustrated if the raster image file is too large: panning, for instance, takes an extended period of time because of the large size of the raster image file.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>So what\u2019s a solution<\/strong> to make it easy to work in AutoCAD when raster image files are attached?<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>The best way<\/strong> is to convert the raster image file to <strong>PNG format<\/strong> and then insert it into AutoCAD!<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Photoshop will help you<\/strong> to convert the raster image files from any format to PNG. If you don&#8217;t have Photoshop there are some free programs that do the job. You can easily find one by Googling.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana; color: black;\"><strong>You will definitely have a better AutoCAD working experience<\/strong> with PNG files since they are smaller and have transparent backgrounds.<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Verdana;\"><strong>Hope this helps!<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AutoCAD%20drawings\">AutoCAD drawings<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/AutoCAD%20drafting\">AutoCAD drafting<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/raster%20images\">raster images<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/PNG\">PNG<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/outsource%20AutoCAD\">outsource AutoCAD<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" rel=\"tag\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/CAD%20services\">CAD services<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 \u201craster image file\u201d). It is usually in TIFF, JPEG, BMP or PDF format. 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