https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147067#M78953 I agree completely with Dwight ... but in the case of a school project, if the issue is a design assignment that will not be dimensioned, or if it is 'context buildings' for your design, then precision is not necessarily essential.<BR /> <BR /> Besides approximate tracing of the image placed into a worksheet and used as a trace reference ... there will be no snapping, just an overlay... you can convert a reasonably crisp image into a dwg that you can then place and either snap to or, if lucky, magic wand to speed up the conversion process. (Again...this will never work accurately enough for a real project!)<BR /> <BR /> If you have Adobe Illustrator, it can perform this conversion to dwg. There are other things out there as well. Probably not worth the time unless the drawing is pretty complex.<BR /> <BR /> Cheers,<BR /> Karl Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:34:41 GMT Karl Ottenstein 2009-01-05T17:34:41Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147065#M78951 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>The school were I study has made the drawings we need in the tasks we are going to solve, available as tiff and gif files.<BR /> (I also has them on paper.) A fellow student told me I could use the electronic versions as help when I was going to draw the same drawings in ArchiCAD. But how is that possible? How do I do it?</T></DIV> Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:07:09 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147065#M78951 Anonymous 2009-01-05T15:07:09Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147066#M78952 Images can be pasted into Archicad plans and other analytical views.<BR /> <BR /> They can then be resized to scale.<BR /> <BR /> The common method is to trace over the images with Archicad elements.<BR /> <BR /> This is an idiotic method since scanned images [gif or tiff] rarely have adequate resolution for architectural accuracy, but might be good enough for rough emulations.<BR /> <BR /> You are better off to accurately redraw the building from dimensioned plans. Mon, 05 Jan 2009 15:59:53 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147066#M78952 Dwight 2009-01-05T15:59:53Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147067#M78953 I agree completely with Dwight ... but in the case of a school project, if the issue is a design assignment that will not be dimensioned, or if it is 'context buildings' for your design, then precision is not necessarily essential.<BR /> <BR /> Besides approximate tracing of the image placed into a worksheet and used as a trace reference ... there will be no snapping, just an overlay... you can convert a reasonably crisp image into a dwg that you can then place and either snap to or, if lucky, magic wand to speed up the conversion process. (Again...this will never work accurately enough for a real project!)<BR /> <BR /> If you have Adobe Illustrator, it can perform this conversion to dwg. There are other things out there as well. Probably not worth the time unless the drawing is pretty complex.<BR /> <BR /> Cheers,<BR /> Karl Mon, 05 Jan 2009 17:34:41 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147067#M78953 Karl Ottenstein 2009-01-05T17:34:41Z https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147068#M78954 It's more a "context building". I'm studying interior design, so the most important is to furnish the rooms. Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:02:32 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Modeling/How-to-use-tiff-and-gif-files-as-help-to-make-new-drawings/m-p/147068#M78954 Anonymous 2009-01-06T07:02:32Z