I need to turn old floor plan layouts from 1988 into Autocad drawings. The original drawings were done by hand. Furthermore, not all the dimensions appear to be written in. These drawings are quite large and intricate. I used Raster Design to clean them up a bit, but identifying primitives and using followers won't give me an accurate drawing. I started tracing everything in Autocad, and, of course, giving accurate measurements as best as I can. But at this rate I'm not sure I'll finish this within one lifetime. Is there anything else I can do to get this job done quicker and more efficiently?
By the way, I still consider myself a novice at all this, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was a better technique I'm not aware of.
I attached a photo of one of the drawings so you have an idea of what I'm doing.
Hi,
There is a lot of way to convert these papers to CAD files like importing PDF pages as AutoCAD objects from AutoCAD 2017 itself PDFIMPORT command.
But the problem exist in modifying the results, it will took time and effort that we suppose we reduce.
For that.. making effort in draw these papers from scratch is more better - as i see - than making treatments.
Good Luck..
Imad Habash
PDFImport is kinda useless when you're dealing with hand-drawn plans scanned into a pdf file. That's all raster data - no vectors.
Turns out my architect professor has a good understanding on how to recreate this using grids in Revit, rather than measuring everything by hand. So he'll be helping me with this. But thank you everyone for the insight.
Hello, We've done that before. We install a different AutoCAD software called "AutoCAD Raster" and convert it to vector. And then, get one reference line dimension and scaled it up.
I hope this helps.
What if that isn't an option? Serious question, I know this is an old post, but I need to resurrect it.
Suppose you had to do this very thing for an organization as a student worker with zero experience in Revit? Also, you had to not only draw, but then/also update the plans you're making to reflect recent/all changes.
Do you draw the plans by the old building plans, and then go in and "figure out" the changes by walking the building yourself and compare them to the plans you made/old plans?
Regardless of what those answers are, are there any free resources that are an excellent guide on how to read those plans? I have plans that I'm looking at and I can't figure out where to set the elevations (plans appear to show a variable elevation? like 7'-9' for example).
Thanks for any and all suggestions!
@Anonymous wrote:Do you draw the plans by the old building plans, and then go in and "figure out" the changes by walking the building yourself and compare them to the plans you made/old plans?
This is exactly what needs to be done if you don't have the plans for the changes.
@Anonymous wrote:Regardless of what those answers are, are there any free resources that are an excellent guide on how to read those plans?
How about this forum?
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