Importing jpeg or bmp?

[Nigel]

Hi, I am trying to resize and scale up portions of a 3-view drawing and I figured out how to import the image into autocad by using imageattach and now I am wondering if there is an easy way to outline them and save them so I can use them in a different program?

[Car5858]

It seems to me that you are looking for a raster to vector drawing converter.

 

I have used wintopro and created a .dxf file. So far they take a lot of work depending on how Wintopro is set up. (Not very good)

 

The best way I have found to do this. is to attach a raster image to the drawing on layer "0"

 

I can then use the scale command to resize the referance image using an item in the image that is a known distance.

 

I always insert the drawings @ 0,0 and use referance for scaling.

[Tankman]

Not a "clean" task.

 

You could print the *.jpg or *.bmp to a *.pdf file.

Convert the *.pdf to a *.dxf and go to work scale and clean up the drawing.

 

You will find the entire drawing is more than likely a lot of pieces (ugly).

If you have a *.pdf that was created in AutoCAD the result will be much cleaner.

 

Try the free download www.pdf2cad.com if they still have a trial version. Just checked, a free 30 day trial version is available.