TABLE OF CONTENTS To give a further example of placing raster images in an AutoCAD drawing.
To give examples of the use of the Profile tool to obtain profile-only drawings from 3D models.
To give examples of methods of printing or plotting not given in previous chapters.
To give examples of the use of polygonal viewports.
This example shows the raster file rendering.bmp of the 3D model constructed to the details given in the drawing in Fig. 20.1.
Raster images are graphics images such as those taken from files ending with the file extensions *.bmp, *.pcx, *.tif and the like. The types of graphics files which can be inserted into AutoCAD drawings can be seen by first clicking on Raster Image . . . in the Insert drop-down menu (Fig. 20.2), which brings the Select Image File dialog (Fig. 20.3) on screen. In the dialog click the arrow to the right of the Files of type field and the popup list which appears lists the types of graphics files which can be inserted into AutoCAD drawings. Such graphics files can be used to describe in 3D the details shown in 2D by a technical drawing.
