Autodesk Raster Design allows you to effectively use scanned paper drawings, aerial photographs, digital elevation models AutoCAD drawings, then correlate, edit, analyze, and export the results....

Converting raster entities to vector makes it easier to modify a drawing and can reduce the total file size of your project. After conversion, you can edit the vector entities using AutoCAD commands. To convert raster to vector, you can use the Raster Design vectorization tools (VTools).

With raster entity manipulation (REM) commands, you can edit raster entities and regions with vector-like precision. You can create a selection set of a raster area or raster entities, then move, copy, or delete the selection set using native AutoCAD commands.

All Raster Design menu options are located on the Image menu. The following chart outlines the functions you can access through this menu, and provides cross-references to sections in this book for more information.

Raster Design provides more than a dozen toolbars that you can use to access commands quickly while you work. The Raster Design Toolbar is the largest one, and includes several submenus that can be displayed as separate toolbars. When you pass the cursor over a tool icon, a tooltip shows the name of the tool. More detailed information about a tool, such as the equivalent command-line command, is displayed on the AutoCAD status bar at the bottom of the screen.
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