Raster Design 2006

[Broman]

Hello,
I was just poking around the net looking for some inside tips or maybe tutorial info on working with Raster and autoCAD toegether.

The company I work for does a lot of civil, GIS, and electrical design stuff and on occasion we are forced to work with outside blueprints that must be scanned into the system then edited. Nine times out of ten we will purchase the blueprints then convert them into our own drawings however There are the instances where we leave the drawing as is and simply put in into a company border/title.

Any kind of direction will be appreciated - I am very well versed in autoCAD, but am a complete novice in terms of Raster Design. (so far I HATE working with images - they slow my PC down and are very clunky in terms of interface)......

[CADTutor]

This tutorial (http://www.cadtutor.net/acad/acad2k/map/map.html) and the two others listed should cover most of what you need to know.

:)

[Broman]

OOooo,
Good stuff, thanks. I have been getting the basics at work - but as per usual the basics are not enough to make me feel comfortable. That kind of inside stuff is just what I was looking for.

We take satallite images or blueprints and superimpose our own vector design work over the raster stuff.

Let's say that I wanted to "flatten" my vecter drafts onto the raster image. Is that possible?

And what about scanning to vector? (more of a personal interest question)

I used to do design work for a sign company that had software that could scan high contrast black and white images directly into vector. We could use logo "slickers" (perfectly clean and variously sized variations of a company logo in B&W) and scan them directly into a vector format that needed only a few litttle areas cleaned up for our use. Does AutoCAD have any plug-ins or other methods of doing the same thing?

And if not AutoCAD - maybe Illustrator.....since you seem like a guru :)

[rkmcswain]

Any kind of direction will be appreciated - I am very well versed in autoCAD, but am a complete novice in terms of Raster Design.

Some good info here also.
http://rasterdesign.blogspot.com/