Meglesniak323 Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 I cannot believe how many questions I find myself asking. I studied autoCAD for quite a while, but I am a little rusty now so I keep running into minor problems. Here I am trying to bring a floorplan from Adobe Acrobat (that my teacher emailed me). I am using AutoCAD 2009 right now. I am trying to bring in the plan (to scale) but I am stuck! Ive tried tracing it but I do not have the right dimensions and/or scale. Also, in the Adobe file my teacher sent is scaled at 3/32" but I am unsure how to make it 1/4" scale in Autocad. Actually, I am completely unsure how to even bring it into AutoCAD... Any advice? Other than to buy the book!? (Lol- its in the mail!!) Thanks Quote
chelsea1307 Posted May 12, 2009 Posted May 12, 2009 This is what i would do, Change the file from *.pdf to *.tiff or *.jpeg then insert it as a raster image. from there select the image and scale by reference, if a doorway is supposed to be 4' select the image type in scale select one end of the doorway (as close as you can ge this wont be exact) then type r and select the same end of the doorway then the other and type 4' or 48 now you trace to make it 1:4 scale you need to go into paperspace and create a viewport and double click inside and set the scale to 1:4 and pan to fit the floorplan in the viewport. as i said this isnt exact, but its how i would do it, someone else will probably come along and tell you another way or two or three Quote
Meglesniak323 Posted May 12, 2009 Author Posted May 12, 2009 Okay thank you! One more question - how do you insert a raster image? Otherwise I am about to follow that step by step... Quote
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