Create Image from Drawing

The Create Image from Drawing command allows you to create a raster image of selected entities in your drawing to produce an photographic style image with a corresponding "world" meta-data file. This combination of files (*.TIF, *.TFW) allows the image to be correctly located with routines such as the Place Image by World File and Surface 3D Fly-over commands.

Resolution: Indicate the width of the image about to be created in pixels. Higher values permit the image to carry crisper details but increases the resulting file size at a geometric rate.

Background Color: Indicate the desired color of the background portion of the image.

Note:

• For normal (best) results, a "plan" view angle is suggested and can be accomplished through the View > Viewpoint 3D command.
• The "X-direction" limits ("X" is normal to the current angle) of the entities selected for the image will be contained by the image width (or resolution) specified above to produce a "Pixel:CAD Units" ratio. This ratio is multiplied by the vertical, "Y-direction" limits ("Y" is normal to the current view angle) of the entities selected to produce the image height.
• The TIF image produced by the command will carry an X and Y "resolution" of 72 dpi (dots per inch). For an image 1000 pixels wide, the "measureable" width of the image would be 13.889 inches and is the quotient of image width divided by the resolution (e.g. 1000/72).

Prompts

Image File to Create: Specify the name of the image that is to be created.

Select entities for image.
FILter/<Select entities>: Select the entities that are to display in the image and press Enter when complete.

Pulldown Menu Location: Images
Keyboard Command: dwg2geotiff
Prerequisite: Entities in the drawing