Place FIRM Into AutoCad

January 27, 2010

Posted By Samuel Boxer on 1/26/2010 at 5:02 PM

Is there a way to correctly place a FIRM (*.png) file into and AutoCad drawing? I downloaded the *.pgw file. I have AutoCad 2004 with Carlson 2010 and Carlson Survey 2009 Stand Alone with built in AutoCad engine.

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Insert FIRM into AutoCAD drawing

Patrick Trewitt

January 28, 2010

Samuel, If you save the FIRM as a tiff file, you can insert the image into an AutoCAD drawing. Then you will need to scale and rotate the image to fit your field work, so it will benefit you to locate at least two road intersections in the field that you can correlate to the FIRM.

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