Technical guides for image to CAD conversion
Practical notes for professionals working on built heritage and decorated surfaces: how to shoot, how to prepare photoplans and orthophotos, how to calibrate scale, and how to bring SVG, DXF and PDF into your CAD workflow.
Photographing an elevation for CAD conversion
Technical guide to shooting elevations and decorated surfaces for vectorisation: lighting, camera position, lenses, metric references and the mistakes to avoid.
Degradation mapping UNI 11182
Guide to preparing a metrically sound vector base for degradation mapping under UNI 11182: layers, tolerances, calibration and CAD file structure.
From orthophoto to DXF without losing scale
Practical guide to preserving scale when moving from a photogrammetric orthophoto to a DXF: GSD, world files, GeoTIFF, resampling, recalibration.
Orthophoto to CAD, step by step
Step-by-step guide to turning an orthophoto or orthomosaic from Metashape, RealityScan or 3DF Zephyr into a scaled elevation or floor plan in DXF, without manual tracing.
AUTOLAYER: automatic CAD layer separation
How CVCAD AUTOLAYER works: automatic classification of polylines into 2–8 named CAD layers, in-browser manual correction, strengths and technical limits.
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