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Creating primitives

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Creating primitives

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- Now that we know how to temporarily convert raster to REM, we can start pulling data out of our raster image and make it be what is called a primitive. It's called this not because it looks like a caveman, it's called this because it temporarily sets the raster data into a sort of quasi vector shape that can be extended, filleted, and of course trimmed. So what i want to do is go through the methods of turning REM objects into primitives that can be edited. So to get started let's jump into AutoCAD and let's go to our Start Drawing dialogue right here. Click that and we'll start a brand new drawing. Let's insert an image. Let's grab First Floor Area B or whatever image you want to use, and let's click Open. Now let's create a region. Let's go to Rectangular. I'm going to zoom in right here. I'm going to pick a point. I'm going to come way down to here and I'm going to pick a point here. It puts our region on all these areas. So the first thing I want to do is I want to start with a…

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