Image Capture & Insert

Captures the AutoCAD viewport (in tiles) and inserts the captures as an image object.

Keyboard Command: ImgCapIns

Procedure:

1. Open the drawing containing the area to capture.
2. Freeze any layers you don't want captured.
3. Turn off floating palettes inside the viewports and other visual aids (see note).
4. Zoom into any area to establish the zoom level (view height/width) used in the tiles.
5. Use the select window, select extents, limits or object button to choose the area to capture.
6. Adjust the target window values as desired.
7. Choose additional options as desired.
8. Click the OK button to begin processing.

Notes:

• In general the PNG format is recommended. If your viewport will contain primarily images, the JPG format creates smaller files.
• Before processing, you may want to consider turning off visual aids, such as:
  • UCSICON OFF
  • NAVBARDISPLAY 0
  • NAVCUBE OFF
  • VPCONTROL OFF
  • IMAGEFRAME OFF
• The default target area is the limits of the existing geometry in the drawing.
• The resulting area captured in tiles will be slightly larger than the target area picked.
• You may need to turn on the Pause Between Frames toggle and wait for AutoCAD to finish generating the window.
• This tool cannot allow the entry of a new view height because the VIEWSIZE variable is read-only.