Digitizing blueprints with Autocad

Can Autocad scan and digitize paper blueprints, or reverse engineer from an
image file? How can Autocad be used to help bid construction jobs and help
do take-offs and materials calculations? Thanks.

Gene Sanborn

 

You need to convert the paper drawings to digital by scanning for example.

Then you can use software to make a vector (line) image from the digital
image.

AutoCAD can than use the vector image.

Check out http://www.ravtek.com this is what they do.

 

What about Quick Bid and On Screen Take-Off (www.oncenter.com) for
traversing a vector (dxf) file anc calculating the materials breakdown?
Oncenter claims to be able to do this with On Screen Take-Off, but I haven't
got a vectorized file or a blueprint in dxf format to try it out yet. I
hope to get something like crucible (thanks for the info) to accomplish
this.

Gene.