Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. These review and edit operations can be much easier if you enable AutoCAD’s Dynamic Input while vectorizing.This article needs additional citations for verification. If they are incorrect, change the dimensions before you create the next line. For example, after you vectorize a line segment, you can check the line length and angle. Vectorization tools can verify and adjust the dimensions of the vector entities you draw, which is important if the raster image you are vectorizing is not completely accurate. Replace raster text with AutoCAD text or multiline text ( MTEXT). Select the raster arc using several methods, including one-pick. Select the raster circle using several methods, including one pick. Select points to define the corners and baseline angle of the rectangle, then AutoCAD Raster Design toolset creates a closed polyline. Like the line tool, you can use one-pick or multi-pick selection methods. Converts connected raster lines to polylines. This tool uses two basic selection methods: one-pick, which vectorizes a raster line with a single pick, and multi-pick, in which you enter the start and endpoint of the raster line. In particular, one-pick selection and follower tools do not work with grayscale or color photographs.

Vectorization tools work best on bitonal images. If you cannot easily change the image using the above suggestions, or if you need to use the vector data in AutoCAD or another program, you should vectorize the entities. If you want to remove portions of the raster image, you can use the Remove, Crop, and Raster Entity Manipulation (REM) editing commands instead of vectorizing it. If you want to simply archive the image, you do not need to vectorize it. Since vectorizing an image can be time consuming, you should consider your plans for the image before deciding whether or not to vectorize it. In many cases, you can convert a raster entity to a vector one with a single pick.

Each tool is designed to vectorize a raster geometry type, converting it to the corresponding AutoCAD entity. AutoCAD Raster Design toolset provides tools to partially automate the process of vectorizing raster entities.

Autocad raster file formats