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AUTOCAD RASTER DESIGN 2010 FEATURES AND BENEFITS AutoCAD® Raster Design 2010 Features and Benefits Make the most of rasterized scanned drawings, maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery, and digital elevation models. Get more out of your raster data and enhance your designs, plans, presentations, ® and maps with AutoCAD Raster Design software. Contents Introduction ...................................................................................................................... 2 New Features and Enhancements .................................................................................. 2 Image Display ................................................................................................................... 3 Image Editing and Cleanup ............................................................................................. 4 Vectorization Tools with SmartCorrect .......................................................................... 6 Raster Entity Manipulation (REM) with SmartPick ....................................................... 7 Georeferenced Image Display and Analysis .................................................................. 8 Image Transformations .................................................................................................. 10 www.autodesk.com/rasterdesign AUTOCAD RASTER DESIGN 2010 FEATURES AND BENEFITS Introduction Extend the power of AutoCAD® and AutoCAD-based software by using AutoCAD Raster Design software for a wide range of applications. Get more out of your raster data and enhance designs, plans, presentations, and maps. Use AutoCAD Raster Design software with AutoCAD, AutoCAD® Architecture, AutoCAD® Electrical, AutoCAD® Mechanical, AutoCAD® MEP, and AutoCAD® P&ID, AutoCAD® Civil, AutoCAD® Civil 3D®, AutoCAD® Map 3D, and Autodesk® Topobase™ software to unlock and extend the value of existing design information. The capabilities of AutoCAD Raster Design include: • Image display • Image editing and cleanup • Raster entity manipulation (REM) • Vectorization tools, including optical character recognition (OCR) AutoCAD Raster Design software adds additional raster editing, visual analysis, and geospatial image processing when used with AutoCAD Civil, AutoCAD Civil 3D, AutoCAD Map 3D, and Autodesk Topobase software, including • Georeferenced image display and analysis • Image transformations AutoCAD Raster Design enables you to work in an AutoCAD environment, significantly reducing the need to purchase and learn multiple applications. New Features and Enhancements AutoCAD Raster Design 2010 software provides several improvements to existing features, including • Additional AutoCAD products—AutoCAD Raster Design software is now compatible with AutoCAD P&ID, AutoCAD Civil, and Autodesk Topobase software. • More Deployment options—AutoCAD Raster Design 2010 is now a Citrix Ready™ application, enabling deployment via a Citrix application delivery environment when used with AutoCAD Map 3D 2010 software. • Updated User Interface (UI)—Improved integration with new ribbon UIs in most AutoCAD and AutoCAD Map 3D–based software. • Improved file format support—Enhanced file support for more TIFF, BIL, and 64-bit MrSID® Codec images. 2 AUTOCAD RASTER DESIGN 2010 FEATURES AND BENEFITS Image Display Feature Description Benefit Image Insert, Choose individual frames of Choose from a wider range of Save, and Export multiframe imagery for insertion, image data for use in projects. functionality and use them as independent image insertions or as bands of a Independently threaded image multispectral data set. preview enables users to take action regardless of the state of Image preview during insert has the preview. No more canceling its own processing thread. or waiting for the preview to complete before proceeding. See when image defaults are being applied during insertion. Insert images as planned and reduce confusion as to the source of image insertion parameters. Image Save bitonal raster images within Avoid the need to track external embedding the DWG™ file instead of image references. Simplify maintaining the image as an document management tasks external reference. Embed or when it is necessary to maintain unembed images at any point in and transport only one file. the process. Easily and reliably send drawings containing images to clients, partners, and agencies, and avoid problems with image paths at the receiving end. Adjust correlation The Correlation wizard divides Save time using precorrelated parameters using the correlation process into image data to match the project the Correlation several phases, beginning with coordinate system. Save money wizard the data included in the by adapting existing data to your correlation source and ending new project. with the actual coordinates of the image after it has been inserted into a drawing. Access object View and change object Reduce learning time and properties in the properties for any object using improve productivity with AutoCAD the standard AutoCAD interface. AutoCAD integration. Properties Control image, raster entity window manipulation (REM) object, mask, and other properties from the drawing database. View image Use the Insert Image dialog box Save time and improve accuracy properties and to select one or more images to by helping to ensure that users thumbnails place in a drawing. View insert the correct image. before insertion information about an image and preview the image before inserting it. Use a polygonal The Mask feature provides Save time and improve accuracy mask boundary greater flexibility than the Image by working with a single image to display image Clip feature in AutoCAD software mask instead of multiple clip subsets by working across multiple image objects. boundaries. Use Mask to display and plot a subset of the images in a drawing. www.autodesk.com/rasterdesign AUTOCAD RASTER DESIGN 2010 FEATURES AND BENEFITS Feature Description Benefit Access right-click Commands and operations are Integration with the familiar image object and integrated with standard AutoCAD interface helps reduce context-sensitive AutoCAD menu systems. learning time and improve commands productivity. Use and Customize the Insert and Save Save time locating raster data for customize Places dialog boxes to quickly and a project. List in the Insert accurately handle commonly and Save dialog used Internet and network file boxes storage locations. Image Editing and Cleanup Feature Description Benefit Edit Edit multiresolution image files Save changes or edits, such as multiresolution in formats such as MrSID cropping and highlighting areas of image files (LizardTech™) and ECW (ER interest, to JPEG 2000 format and Mapper) and save them in the retain multiresolution advantages of industry-standard JPEG 2000 small file size and fast performance format. while retaining high visual image quality. Despeckle Despeckle successive areas in Clean up successive areas within a an image without having to drawing and process multiple repeat the command or change drawings in a session faster and settings. more easily. Tonal Use a nonlinear contrast curve Improve the clarity and usefulness adjustment to improve the appearance of of scanned imagery by bringing scanned photos and satellite detail out of the shadows without imagery. affecting highlights. Palette Manager Examine and manage the Standardize the use of color colors in an image; for example, images, improve efficiency of color determine which colors are usage in images, and improve actually used, combine colors control of transparency color to highlight or remove image selection. details, and change selective colors. Rubbersheeting Automate control point Improve accuracy and get more selection for grid points using predictable results. triangular or polynomial transformation methods. Edit images by Use the bitonal filters to clean Get the full value from scanned smoothing raster up raster images scanned from drawings. Transform old, illegible geometry paper drawings. Use these data into useful design information. filters with other cleanup commands such as Despeckle and Deskew. 4 AUTOCAD RASTER DESIGN 2010 FEATURES AND BENEFITS Feature Description Benefit Control display Use the Display Order buttons Create powerful image mosaics with order and to move an insertion forward or streamlined control of images and manage images backward in the display order in image insertions. and insertions relation to other insertions. Bias, Mirror, and Bias corrects distortions in an Improve usability and legibility of other raster image’s aspect ratio. Mirror scanned images with powerful cleanup tools reflects an image along the image cleanup tools. horizontal or vertical axis to correct reversed-image problems in scanned drawings. Change color Reduce file size by decreasing Standardize image formats for your depth and image the number of colors displayed. organization. Adjust and improve density Control image density to shrink images. Save time, money, and disk the file size of the image or space, and reduce transmission drawing. time with smaller files. Erase raster Use existing vector geometry to Save time and reduce confusion using existing remove portions of the during vectorization of raster geometry underlying raster image. For images. instance, trace a complex spline in an image and then remove the traced raster. Use unlimited- Transform or stretch an image Reduce costs by using readily point so that specified control points available aerial photography and rubbersheeting in the image