Chapter 13

Copying Existing Drawings into AutoCAD

At times, you’ll want to turn an existing drawing into an AutoCAD drawing file. The original drawing may be hand drawn, or it might be a PDF from another source. You may be modifying a design that someone else created or converting your library of older, hand-drafted drawings for AutoCAD use. Perhaps you want to convert a hand-drawn sketch into a formal drawing? This chapter discusses ways to import existing drawings into AutoCAD through tracing, scaling, and scanning.

In this chapter, you’ll learn to do the following:

  • Convert paper drawings into AutoCAD files
  • Import a raster image
  • Work with a raster image

Methods for Converting Paper Drawings to AutoCAD Files

Scaling a drawing is the most ...

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