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 and DXF 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.
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