QCad User Reference Manual

## Images

CAD Toolbar:

Menu:

Draw - Image

Command:

?

Options Toolbar:

Description:

Inserts a raster image (bitmap) into the drawing. Bitmaps always appear in the background of the rest of the drawing. The DXF file which is created when saving a drawing, contains just a reference to images. It's recommended to keep the image file and the DXF file in the same folder. Transparent background is supported for PNG images.

Procedure:

1. Choose the image file which you want to insert.
2. Type a scaling factor in the options toolbar. A factor of 1.0 means that one pixel of the image will be one unit large in the drawing.
3. Type a rotation angle in the options toolbar. Please note that rotated images can slow down the display process of QCad significantly. In any case it's more efficient to rotate the bitmap in a bitmap editing program before you insert it into QCad.
4. Specify the insertion point of the image. That's the left bottom corner of the image.

Figure 52: Images are often used in the background of a drawing to manually vectorize bitmaps.