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AutoCAD is a commercially-available program for CAD and design work. It was first developed and released by a back in December 1982 and has, since then, slowly put itself above its competitors in the CAD industry. The program has users in the architectural, project management, engineering, urban planning, and graphic design fields.
Now, most AutoCAD users understand the basics of importing images into their file. Imported images usually contain manual sketches and scanned copies of plans and details that need to be digitized and added to a CAD file. Designers are familiar with the process of scanning initial sketches of a plan or a design detail and creating more refined, digital copies of them by tracing over the initial sketches and fine-tuning the angles and lines. The result of this importing and tracing process is accurate CAD files that can be plotted out as blueprints or fed into CNC or laser-cutting machines for accurate cutouts.
Raster images or bitmap images, on the other hand, are made out of pixels with a designated color assigned for each of these pixels. Put together, they form a coherent and comprehensible image. The different types of raster images that Autodesk Raster Design handles are the following:
What I am having to do is, while in the raster tab once I have made my changes. On the far left side There is an insert and write ribbon. Within this ribbon there is a save image option. When I click on this it seems to save the rastering work I have done. I then always finish with a quick save just to save any non rastering work I have done over the top.
That's the way you're supposed to do it. You have two different files, vector dwg and raster. QSAVE saves the AutoCAD dwg and ISAVE saves to the raster image. If you try to close a dwg with a raster image that has changes made, it will prompt you to save, but it uses the ISAVE command to do it. If others were only using QSAVE, then they were not making changes to the raster image.
I think this is an AutoCAD bug they should fix. There needs to be a check for unsaved raster modifications before allowing the user to close the .dwg file. I raised a ticket about this with AutoCAD who did not really understand the issue.
i.e. at present, you can modify raster content in an embedded image, then click the normal QSAVE and close the file, not saving the mods to the embedded raster. This is very easy for users to lose work as there is no warning or reminder from AutoCAD.
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AutoCAD Raster Design is an Autodesk product used to manipulate raster images. This software allows the user to scan, geo-reference, clean, edit, and manipulate raster images including aerial imagery for use GIS projects or for general viewing.
Ideal for older versions of AutoCAD programs without built-in PDF support (pre-AutoCAD 2017). PDFin is ideal for converting CAD drawings, floor plans, network diagrams, and organization charts. It extracts editable CAD entities, layers, objects, and text from any computer-generated PDF file, while images from scanned PDF files are placed on a non-editable tracing layer. PDFin is not designed to vectorize scanned drawings.
The PDFin plug-in is designed specifically for AutoCAD 2012 and higher as well as other compatible Autodesk programs supporting the extension API. An alternative plugin version for users of AutoCAD 2011 and earlier may be found at -integrity.com
Comment from the publisher: We try to be clear that PDFin is not designed to convert scanned drawings. PDFin extracts editable drawings from data-rich vector PDF files - basically any file created on a computer (save, print-to-file, export, etc). Scanned drawings are raster PDF files with no data to extract. For scanned drawings, PDFin produces an AutoCAD IMAGE object with a reference to the scanned TIFF or JPEG image. This IMAGE object can't be edited in AutoCAD but can be useful as a tracing layer or underlay.It's easy to tell the difference between raster and vector PDF files. Just open the PDF file in Acrobat Reader and magnify to >800%. If the drawing looks crisp and clear, it's a vector PDF file and PDFin will do a great job for you. If it looks grainy, jagged, dirty or noisy, it's a raster PDF and must be redrawn or traced. If you are not sure, send us a test file. Hope this helps! For more information: -integrity.com/support/faq/why-wont-my-drawing-convert/
We are looking at using the Forge Viewer for a project to display and markup plans, etc. (for now just 2D, 3D may be added in the future). Some drawings they may only have in raster formats, i.e. scans of old buildings, etc.
Is there a way to show this raster image at a certain predefined size in the viewer as a background? Obviously there wouldn't be the ability to snap to anything or get different objects, etc. but it would still be useful when vector data is simply not available.
The only way I can think of is to use design automation to create a CAD file or something and then place the image file there and then convert the CAD file to svf. That seems very clunky though and I'm not sure it would actually work without testing it.
There is no translation support for raster images png, bmp, etc to generate an SVF model out of it.You could either
a) use the image inside a format that we support (e.g. DWG - perhaps place the image in it using Design Automation API) and translate that to SVF
b) load a dummy model as shown here, and then add the image using e.g. threejs functions