Importing a line drawing

[deangelis]

After cutting and pasting a line drawing into Autocad 2007, and after the mechanical tracing over the line drawing is complete, would someone please tell me the procedure for separating the tracing from the line drawing, or getting rid of the cut and pasted line drawing altogether?
Thank you in advance,
De Angelis

[ReMark]

The line drawing and the "tracing" should have both been on separate layers. That way you could isolate one from the other (Layer: off or Layer: freeze) and do whatever needed to be done like erase everything. Let me guess; everything is on one layer, right?

[Timms_KHP]

don't forget layiso, layer isolate, assuming you've got seperate layers as said previously.

[eldon]

I am a bit confused. If you imported lines, then why trace over them

Or do we not have the full story as to what was imported.

[ReMark]

I wonder if the OP is using a raster image?

[deangelis]

Thanks for your reply.
The reason that I am tracing over then is that they were hand drawn and need to be corrected mechanically, with straight lines, arcs, etc.
David De Angelis

[deangelis]

Thanks for the reply. I will have to learn to use layers.
David De Angelis

[ReMark]

You're digitizing the hand drawings into AutoCAD or did you scan them?

[deangelis]

It was a crudely drawn line drawing that I scanned and made into a jpg. I then opened it in a viewer to size it, ACDC, I think it was, and cut and pasted it from there to Autocad 2007.
David De Angelis

[ReMark]

Wouldn't it have been easier just to redraw in AutoCAD from scratch?