Raster Design 2009

Image is everything.

Use AutoCAD® Raster Design software with AutoCAD®  software and applications based on AutoCAD to extend the value of scanned drawings, maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery, and digital elevation models. Clean, edit, and create hybrid raster-vector drawings, or vectorize scanned drawings without expensive redrafting. Using AutoCAD Raster Design, you can transform, edit, and prepare raster data; analyze imagery; and create drawings and present proposals that integrate information-rich plans, maps, satellite data, and other forms of imagery to enhance communication and understanding of design intent. Improve design and decision-making processes and the quality of presentations as you increase productivity and get the maximum value from raster assets.

Extend the Value of Existing Information Unlock and make the most of existing scanned engineering drawings, plans, and maps by using them in current projects. You can save redrafting time with powerful raster editing and raste to vector conversion tools. Improve Decision Making Get projects approved faster by creating drawings and presenting proposals that integrate information rich plans, maps, satellite data, and other forms of imagery that enhance communication and understanding of your design intent.		With Raster Design you can create color elevation representations directly from DEM, DTED, and ESRI® GRID raster files. Visualize the slope and aspect information you need to help make better design and policy decisions. Show vegetation, land cover, and environmental information using readily available multispectral satellite imagery. Enhance, Preserve, and Maintain Valuable Raster Assets AutoCAD Raster Design software enables you to easily clean up, provide edits to, and maintain your archive of scanned drawings, plans, and maps. It also enhances and analyzes satellite and aerial imagery in a familiar AutoCAD environment.
Use the discrete themed data handling capabilities of Raster Design to incorporate raster information, such as this indicating land cover from the USGS National Land Cover Database 2001 (NLCD2001).
Approvals Accelerated Perform raster drawing cleanup, editing and manipulation, raster-to-vector conversion, and image processing while working with a breadth of imagery—from bitonal to highresolution georeferenced color and multispectral images in a wide range of industry formats. Raster Design enables you to work in an AutoCAD environment, significantly reducing the need to purchase and learn multiple applications. And by sharing design and analysis findings with a high degree of specificity, Raster Design provides detailed graphical representations that speed project approvals.
Use Industry-Standard Image Formats AutoCAD Raster Design supports numerous image formats so designers can easily integrate and use imagery within their projects. Supported multiresolution image formats include MrSID,® ECW, and JPEG 2000. Read support for DigitalGlobe’s Quickbird TIFF and the Landsat FAST-L7A format multispectral imagery provides a broad range of data available within your projects. AutoCAD Raster Design also includes read support for the National Imagery Transmission Format (NITF), which is an important tool for the U.S. Department of Defense and the federal intelligence community. Other supported formats include the following: BMP CALS DEM DOQ ECW FLIC GeoSPOT GeoTIFF* GIF IG4 JPEG/JFIF JPEG2000 PCX PICT PNG TGA RLC SID Accurately vectorize partial or entire scanned sheets using the semiautomatic and interactive raster-to vector conversion utilities. Clean Raster Drawings and Images Improve usability and legibility of scanned drawings with powerful image cleanup tools. Despeckle removes stray pixels that result from scanning dirty or faded drawings or blueprints. Deskew corrects drawings that were crooked as they were fed through a scanner. Bias corrects distortion in an image’s aspect ratio. Mirror can correct transparencies that have been scanned upside down. By using these and other tools, you can reduce the time and effort necessary to clean up scanned drawings and maps while better maintaining your image archives.		Enhance Images with Intuitive Image-Processing Tools Several image-processing features are available to help designers get the most from existing imagery. The histogram feature includes functions to equalize images, adjust brightness and contrast, convert grayscale or color images to bitonal images, and perform nonlinear tonal adjustments. The convolve feature has smoothing filters to reduce ruggedness and noise as well as sharpening filters to make differences in shading more distinct. The invert feature reverses the light and dark shades of binary, color, and grayscale images. These and other imageprocessing features in AutoCAD Raster Design can help improve the appearance of existing images, so you can get the full benefit from your investment in imagery. Convert Raster Data to Vector Do you want to be able to use scanned drawings and map content without having to redraft? Would you like to convert raster lines, arcs, and text to vector for use in AutoCAD-based products as part of your drawing, model, or design? With AutoCAD Raster Design software’s vectorization tools, you can interactively convert raster to vector to accelerate project turnarounds and improve efficiency. Use Optical Character Recognition Recognize machine and hand-printed text and tables on raster images to create AutoCAD text or multiline text (mtext) automatically. Use interactive verification to correct results with dictionary matching. Save manual data entry time and improve accuracy when converting scanned documents with a lot of text. Use correlation tools such as Rubbersheet to align images with your drawing’s vector information.

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