Demand for paper to cad conversion services is increasing drastically

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Demand for paper to CAD conversion services is increasing drastically There is no denying the fact that demand for paper to CAD conversion services is increasing tremendously among AEC industry as CAD drawings are more beneficial to design and construction professionals when compared to manual hand drawings. Technical drawings that are created manually by architects and engineers for a construction project cannot be communicated quickly to different stakeholders when compared to CAD drawings. As outsourcing industry is growing which a rapid speed the demand for engineering services is also escalating among clients. High end CAD drawings can be developed quickly by CAD technicians by making use of handmade drawings. As soon as AutoCAD is launched by Autodesk it started to be optimized by AEC professionals for developing digital drawings which kind of transformed the entire drafting process. Paper to CAD conversion services started getting popularity as design and construction professionals realized the potential of CAD drawings in terms of using them for various purposes such as communicating design intent to clients. Drawings made on paper cannot be transferred quickly to clients if they stay far away until and unless they are personally handovered to them. On the other hand CAD drawings can be mailed electronically to clients within seconds using internet. Now how to convert hand drawings into CAD drawings is the major question. Well for doing that first manual drawings are sent by the clients to the services providing company, and the staff of the company effectively go through these drawing. These drawings are then scanned and saved into appropriate file formats that can be read by AutoCAD. Now technicians of the services providing company are required to start a new drawing by going to file menu. In the file menu they should select ‘New’ for creating a fresh drawing. Now technicians can import the drawing that is saved by them after scanning. For doing so they should use the import option that is available in the File Menu. Once the drawing is successfully imported in AutoCAD, technicians should then create a layer which can be applied to the drawing for tracing it. Once the drawing is imported in the software necessary modification can be implemented on it by technicians after tracing the elements. Afterwards they should establish a scale for the drawing by using measurement tool. With the help of this tool drawing can be effectively measured by technicians and this measurement can be applied to the AutoCAD drawing which they are creating. In this way accurate CAD drawings can be developed by technicians simply by measuring the hand drawings with the help of effective AutoCAD tools.


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