From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
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Working with underlays - AutoCAD for Mac Tutorial
From the course: Learning AutoCAD for Mac 2019
Working with underlays
- Occasionally, we need to copy or trace information that we cannot get in CAD form. This might be topography maps, component panel layouts, or even old, hand drafted plans. Fortunately AutoCAD for Mac allows us to insert a number of file types as underlays, both for tracing and other purposes. To start we'll go to the Insert menu and then choose the file type that we want to underlay, in this case, PDF. PDFs can be inserted by clicking here and then locating our file and clicking open. Like external references, we can specify the attachment path, insertion point, rotation and scale. If you have a PDF with multiple pages, they'll be displayed here. I'll click attach, then place and scale my PDF. Once the file is inserted we have a few options which we can find by selecting the PDF itself and then following along in the underlay visor. From here we can change the scale, change the fade, which is great for tracing, show or hide the PDF, or clip the PDF to only show part of the file…
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