Introduction to AutoCAD 2009 2D and 3D Design- P5: The purpose of writing this book is to produce a text suitable for students in Further and/or Higher Education who are required to learn how to use the CAD software package AutoCAD 2009. Students taking examinations based on computer-aided design will fi nd the contents of the book of great assistance. | 188 Introduction to AutoCad 2009 CHAPTER 10 3. In the Scale field enter a suitable scale figure. The size the image will appear in the AutoCAD window can be seen with a click on the Details button which brings down an extension of the dialog that shows details about the resolution and size of the image. 4. Click the OK button the command line shows Command _imageattach Specify insertion point 0 0 the image attached to the cursor cross hairs appears pick a suitable point on screen Command and the raster image appears at the picked point Fig. . Fig. Example - placing a raster file in a drawing Note As can be seen from the Blocks References Block Import and Data panels a variety of different types of. images can be inserted into an AutoCAD drawing. Some examples are Blocks - see Chapter 9. External References Xrefs - see later in this chapter. Field - A click on the name brings up the Field dialog. Practise inserting various categories of field names from the dialog. Layout - A wizard appears allowing new layouts to be created and saved for new templates. 3D Studio - allows the insertion of images constructed in the Autodesk software 3D Studio from files with the format .3ds. Please purchase PDF Split-Merge on to remove this watermark. Other types of file format 189 External References Xrefs If a drawing is inserted into another drawing as an external reference any changes made in the original Xref drawing are automatically reflected in the drawing into which the xref has been inserted. Example - External References Fig. 1. Construct the three-view orthographic drawing given in Fig. . Dimensions of this drawing will be found on p. 301. Save the drawing to a suitable file name. 2. As a separate drawing construct Fig. . Save it as a wblock with the name of Fig. and with a base insertion point at one end of its centre line. 3. C lick External References in the View Palettes panel Fig. . The External Reference .
