There are many tasks that can be performed with a scaled floor plan that don’t depend on a high-quality rendition of that floor plan. Often times, they exist only on paper…and even then, only after you’ve sketched them out yourself on quadrille paper. Quick-and-dirty Floor Plans Are People Too! While it’s great to have precisely-drawn, CAD-created floor plans-plum full of vectors that print beautifully-they aren’t always available. In today’s article, you’ll learn how to quickly import an image of a measured drawing and configure it for used in a scaled environment!

What that article didn’t cover were issues related to scaling. Recently, we talked about techniques for using images as backgrounds for tracing vector-based Visio shapes in the article: Importing Images as Backgrounds for Tracing. Not to worry, you scan it and use it in your scaled Visio drawing anyway! You’ve already got your plan…but it’s only available in paper format. On the Format menu, click, click the Compression tab, select Delete cropped areas of pictures, and then click OK.Importing Images as Backgrounds for Scaled Drawings in Visio Tip To reduce the size of an picture, delete the cropped areas. Note When you change the size of an object’s border with the Crop tool, the object itself is not resized, but the amount of the object that is visible is reduced or enlarged. Click the General tab, select the Lock size and position check box, and then click OK.

Right-click the CAD drawing, point to CAD Drawing Object, and then click Properties.To lock a CAD drawing so that you don’t accidentally move or resize it while you are working, do the following:.When you’re done, click the Pointer tool.To see a different portion (“pan” the drawing, picture, or object), place your pointer over the object until the pointer becomes a hand symbol, and then drag.Drag the selection handles until only the portion of the drawing, picture, or object that you want is visible.(If the Picture toolbar is not visible, on the View menu, point to Toolbars, and then click Picture.) Tip For CAD drawings, you can also right-click the drawing and click Crop Tool. Click the Crop tool on the Picture toolbar.Select the CAD drawing, picture, object.Click the General tab, clear the Lock size and position check box, and then click OK.Right-click the AutoCAD drawing, point to CAD Drawing Object, and then click Properties.

To crop an AutoCAD drawing, first unlock it by doing the following:.

You can crop an AutoCAD drawing, picture, or a linked or embedded object.

Visio lock image on resize