# Bitmap to Cad?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmap-to-cad/263508>\
**Category:** design\
**Created:** [June 16, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmap-to-cad/263508 "2008-06-16T19:15:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![w1sh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/7feea3/32.png) [@w1sh](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/w1sh)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 7:15pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmap-to-cad/263508/1 "2008-06-16T19:15:27Z")

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Is there a autotracing program out there that will convert a bitmap object into a cad drawing of some sort?

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**Author:** ![Templarian](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/templarian/32/7152_2.png) [@Templarian](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Templarian)\
**Post date:** [June 16, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmap-to-cad/263508/2 "2008-06-16T23:29:31Z")

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Not really the best you can do is height map it and that wouldn’t really give that accurate of a depiction. You best bet is to remake it in Autodesk or Solidworks. Your not going to get a reasonable or usable object out it from just an image.

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**Author:** ![Nuvis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/49beb7/32.png) [@Nuvis](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nuvis)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2008, 9:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/bitmap-to-cad/263508/3 "2008-07-14T09:45:26Z")

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If your using Autocad you can go to “insert” and then to “Raster Image” to include bitmaps and image files within your cad drawings. We use this feature a lot in Autocad and Revit for taking topography maps produce by a surveyor and including that with out Site Plans.

Nuvis