Timber Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 Hi folks, I'm new to the forum. I hope you can answer this question. There is a particular doorway drawn in an architecture book that I need in my autocad drawing. There is only one measurement supplied. So I scanned the picture and it is now stored on my flashdrive. I am hoping to import the image into adobe illustrator so I can use the pen tool and copy it...then resize it accordingly? At that point I want to bring the finished drawing into autocad. So far, bringing anything from illustrator into autocad has not worked. Is there another way? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eldon Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 I would get it in to AutoCAD as a raster image and trace it there. You could scale with Reference option to make it the correct size. Looking at the web, in adobe illustrator, you would have to export it or save to web format where you could specify a jpeg/ png/ tiff format. When you scan it. can you get a jpeg file output? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timber Posted January 12, 2014 Author Share Posted January 12, 2014 Eldon, I scanned a page in a book using my printer/scanner. It has to save it as a pdf. But it is easy to bring a pdf into illustrator. I'll keep trying.....but am sure there is an easy solution. Thanks, Tim Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pablo Ferral Posted January 12, 2014 Share Posted January 12, 2014 You can reference a PDF into AutoCAD and trace over the top of it. You can export curves to DWG from illustrator, but they will probably all be splines, which is probably not what you want. There are no shortcuts here... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 The PDF can be brought into AutoCAD via the PDFATTACH command. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SLW210 Posted January 13, 2014 Share Posted January 13, 2014 Are you exporting to DWG from Illustrator? Can you post your files here? As already stated, probably be easier to trace in AutoCAD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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