Working with Image Files

You can attach raster images (such as digital photographs or scanned maps) as References to the current drawing.

In practice, there are many situations when you have to add images in your drawings:

  • Add a logo to a drawing title block

  • Place a map behind the drawing

  • Include aerial photographs

  • Adding watermarks

The software provides tools and options to attach and detach images to your drawings and modify their scale and appearance. Additionally, you can clip images to a specified boundary and control image display properties.

Some of the supported file types are .bmp, .gif, .jpg, .jpeg, .png, .tif, and .tiff.

Images are not part of the drawing. The names of the images attached to the drawing are listed in the References palette.

The Properties palette lets you change several display properties of images that you attached to the drawing. You can:

  • Adjust brightness to darken or lighten an image

  • Adjust contrast to make an image easier to read

  • Adjust fade and background transparency to see the drawing entities over images

If you select an image and the ribbon is active, the Image Selection contextual tab appears. The contextual tab groups options and tools for clipping and changing display properties.

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