If your workflow involves the use of scanned imagery, (USGS maps, soil maps, floodplain maps, Sidwell maps, etc.) you’ve probably developed some strategies to manually align these images to your Civil 3D drawings. Once an image is properly positioned in a drawing it’s important that its registration be repeatable, so the image can be similarly placed in all other project drawings.
Using Raster Design you can easily capture (and reuse) image properties such as insertion point, scale and rotation angle using a world file. This means a scanned image only needs to be aligned once. After aligning it to a drawing, it can then be exported with an associated world file such that it can be predictably placed in other drawings.
If you are interested, I’ve created a quick video that walks through a technique using Raster Design within Civil 3D to export (and then import) an image with an associated world file.
- Jeff
Useful as usual! your tips and tricks are brief and go to the point. Thanks a lot and greetings from Medellín, Colombia.
Posted by: Alexis Orozco Rivera | 09/03/2016 at 07:56 PM