Insert Image in AutoCAD

What is AutoCAD?

AutoCAD is a drafting software with the help of which an architect, design engineers draw their design in 2D, 3D format. This is the first software that helps us to draw our design in the digital format. Before this, people use to draw their drawing in sheets, chart papers of different sizes. They use sheets of A1, A2, A3, and A4 sizes to draw their object. Our main focus area is to tell how we can insert an image in Auto CAD in this presentation. In this topic, we are going to learn about Insert Image in AutoCAD.

How to Insert Image in AutoCAD?

Steps to follow for inserting an image in Auto CAD.

Process #1

Step 1 – Open the AutoCAD software by clicking on the AutoCAD icon provided as a shortcut on your windows. AutoCAD software will appear on your screen, as shown below.

Step 2 –Type command IMAGE on the Auto CAD command box and then press Enter. A Dialogue box will appear on the screen, as shown.

Step 3 – Then press on the DWG folder appearing on the left most corner of the dialogue box. A small dialog box will appear on which many options are available, like Attach DWG, Attach Image, Attach DWF, etc. Click on the Attach Image option on the dialog box.

Step 4 – A pop-up dialog box will appear on the screen. Browse the image you needs on Auto CAD software.

Step 5 – After you browse, a pop up will appear, which will ask the path type, insertion point, Scale and the rotation of the image you need. Specify path type as full and press okay for all other option as “Specify on Screen’’. In this way, you can insert your image at any position on the Auto CAD window.

Step 6 – If you know the exact location, the scale factor of the image, then you can type the position and scale factor as shown below.

Step 7 – After you specify the insertion place and rotation, the image will appear on the screen as shown.

Step 8 – You can also enter multiple images on the same window by following the same above process.

Process #2

You can directly insert an image by clicking on the Attach icon present on the Insert taskbar and following the same procedure from Step 5 to Step 8.

Thus these are 2 processes by which we can insert an image in Auto CAD software.

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