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Adding raster images

Adding raster images - AutoCAD Tutorial

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Adding raster images

- [Instructor] Inserting raster images, such as air photos, satellite images, and scanned maps, add context to your drawings. Many organizations scan thousands of drawings from paper, and you have the ability to add those drawings as images to your existing drawing. Let's add an image now. So in the Insert ribbon, under Image, click the Image button, browse to the Guelph_UTM17_NAD83.tif. You'll see a checkbox saying Modify Correlation. That'll allow us to look at where the image will be inserted. It's actually harvesting the location of where this image is, and its dot density, from the file. If I checked Show Frames Only, this would only insert the outline of the image and not the image itself, making my drawing a lot smaller, but I wouldn't be able to see the image. Now, click Open. You'll see in the background the image is inserted, but where did it insert to? It used the insertion point inside the file. For example, it used the UTM coordinates. So it's using 540,000 by 4,816,000…

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