My wife has been starting to use ArcGIS, but does not know everything about it.
I have been using AutoCAD, for 10 years, but I only know what I need to know, which is not much more then getting a useable drawing, I am no draftsman.
Okay, so we are trying to see if she can get me a jpeg, at a 1" = 200' scale, which she was able to do.
Now I am trying to bring it into a dwg file, so that I can draw on top of it, and be able to print that out.
The only way that I know how to bring in a picture into a LT dwg file is by using Paint, (select all, copy, and then paste, but I do not know how to adjust the scale size to fit my drawing.
I work in real world drawings, then I bring my template, drawn at 1:1 in at the scale I want my drawing to be, I don't do paperspace.
Any thoughts??
BTW, not an emergency, but it would be nice to know how to do it for future needs.
BTW, we may be looking at this completely wrong, so if there is another solution please advise.
mapiimport works in civil3d, brings it in to scale and all that fancy stuff!
Does LT have the IMAGE command? That will insert an image as a reference.
I often use the align command to scale images after they are in the drawing.
I'm not sure, I just shut the PC down, and it won't get turned on until tomorrow, but I will check. Thanks
If your work is georeferenced you should look into using a geotiff
Is your gis georeferenced? Have you thought about importing your .dwg into the gis? One tip, open arccatalog, navigate to the dwg and assign it a projection before using the add data command. I use this all the time but only to make "pretty pictures" as another survey product but the line work is true to on the ground measurements. The error comes from the quads or your background layer/feature class. I always include the statement "For Informational Purposes Only".
The easiest way I know of to get imagery into AutoCad is to download a ".MrSid" georeferenced image and use the "mapiinsert" command to import it. Most counties these days have some sort of downloadable imagery database that you can get data from for free. (Here in Florida, we use Labins.org (state-wide), but I believe Esri has some free nationwide imagery available.) It should pop into AutoCad at the correct scale and correct location if your project is on state plane. If you're not using georeferenced imagery and you're trying to "slide" it under your existing points, the easiest way I have found to do it is to draw a long line across your AutoCad image between two prominent points and then move, rotate & scale the image such that it will fit to the corresponding line in your points. Then you can use your survey border to crop the image.
(It may be noteworthy to mention that your printer may produce the imagery darker than expected. I would recommend lowering the contrast some, and then making it much lighter than the original exposure.)
I don't believe AutoCad LT allows image import like full blown AutoCad does, but it will display the image in a drawing made by a full AutoCad product.
In order to have the JPG properly sized and geo-referenced, it needs to have projection files associated with it (World file) and brought into AutoCad Map using the Map - Image - Import menu pick.
If you can find someone who has the full product import it for you it should display OK in LT.
> In order to have the JPG properly sized and geo-referenced, it needs to have projection files associated with it (World file) and brought into AutoCad Map using the Map - Image - Import menu pick.
If you're using vanilla AutoCAD (rather than Map or C3D), you can use GEOREFIMG, a free AutoLISP function from CadStudio. Once the function is installed (via APPLOAD), you insert the image in the drawing (IMAGEATTACH), then execute GEOREFIMG, which will look for the world file in the same folder as the image reference and use it to locate, rotate and scale the image accordingly.
Not knowing what type of layers you're trying to bring into AutoCAD, but I'm pretty sure you should be able to save a vector layer to a DXF, then just open the DXF in CAD. It has been a while since I used ArcGIS.
You should also be able to create a new vector layer by drawing polylines over a raster layer in ArcGIS, then save that layer as a DXF. There are also various ways to convert shp files to dxf, etc.
ArcGIS for AutoCAD (I've not used it) might prove useful.