2. What is it? Autodesk® Raster Design 2004
The leading raster application for design professionals who need to use or reuse scanned paper drawings or maps, satellite images, aerial photos, and similar digital design data with their design projects.
Autodesk Raster Design is the leading raster application for design professionals in any industry who need to use or reuse scanned paper drawings or maps, satellite images, aerial photos, and similar digital design data with their design projects. It is the Autodesk solution for managing, converting, and editing all types of raster images inside AutoCAD software and AutoCAD software-based products.

3. Autodesk® Raster Design 2004
Raster and vector defined
Who needs Raster Design?
What’s in Raster Design 2004?
Industry positioning
Autodesk Programs
This presentation will review the basics of raster data, Then, we’ll look at what is in Autodesk Raster Design 2004, followed by positioning and market analysis. We’ll finish with current Autodesk Programs for Raster Design

4. Raster & Vector Data Vector Greyscale Raster Binary Raster
We’re going to be talking a lot about ‘raster’ images today, so let’s just quickly make sure that everyone here understands what we mean.
Raster images can display detailed drawing information in the same way as CAD Vector drawings, but without containing the same kind of ‘intelligence’.
For example, a vector circle drawn in AutoCAD, contains information about itself, such as its coordinates in the drawing and its radius and circumference. A raster circle contains none of this information or intelligence. A raster circle is simply a collection of small raster ‘dots’ arranged in a circle, with none of the individual dots knowing anything about the next dot.

5. Types of Raster Data Binary Greyscale Color
So, while raster images may contain no useable intelligence, they can certainly display information clearly, either as ‘binary’, single color drawings, and as grayscale and color images.

6. Examples of Hybrids Binary Greyscale & Color
Hybrid drawings can be made from modifying scanned binary images, and also from combining vector data on top of color or grayscale images.
Here are some examples.
Greyscale & Color

7. Do you need a raster solution?
Do you need to
use or reuse existing drawings or maps?
eliminate costly data reentry to reduce time to market?
minimize design and production costs?
communicate design intent electronically?
By asking these simple questions, we can quickly determine the level of “pain” a customer feels.
Communication of digital design data is a new concept. It’s all about keeping drawings in electronic format to save plotting and shipping costs, and during the design process to speed design cycle process.

8. Most users need raster data
Up to 91% of AutoCAD users have a need to use existing paper drawings or photographs
Autodesk® Raster Design is the leading raster application for AutoCAD and AutoCAD based desktops
A survey of AutoCAD users in all disciplines found 9 out of 10 users need to use paper drawings or photos in AutoCAD. And their needs will increase in the next 1-5 years.
All users of AutoCAD-based products are exposed to the raster capabilities in AutoCAD. This enables them to insert, view and plot scanned images of their paper drawings into AutoCAD drawing files.
However, these users will soon realize they require additional imaging functionality to increase productivity. All of these users are strong candidates for the drawing conversion, drawing revision and reference imaging capabilities of Raster Design.

9. What is in Raster Design?
Rubbersheeting
Vectorization Tools
Raster Editing Tools
Tonal Adjustment
Optical Character Recognition (OCR)
Palette Manager
Raster Design offers enhanced functionality for image processing and raster-to-vector conversion. If you work with any type of images, you’ll want to explore these features.

10. Optical Character Recognition
For faster conversion of text from scanned drawings and maps
The OCR feature in Autodesk Raster Design allows you to select areas of text or tables that need to be converted from a scanned drawing or map. You want the resulting AutoCAD text to be accurate, so verification and editing of the recognition results is easily accomplished with Raster Design.

11. Tonal Adjustment
Improve the appearance of scanned imagery by bringing detail out of the shadows without affecting highlights.
The Tonal Adjustment feature lets you improve the visual appearance of color and grayscale images. The human eye is generally more sensitive to dark shades than to light shades. However, many digital images, particularly those produced on a scanner, display less detail in darker or shadowed regions of the image. Controls on the Tonal Adjustment tab can adjust the contrast using a curve—allowing you to increase the contrast in the darker tones, while maintaining the current level of contrast among mid-tones and lighter colors.

12. Palette Manager
Standardize the use of color images, improve efficiency of color usage within images, and improve control of transparency color selection.
The Palette Manager feature allows you to manipulate individual colors and entire palettes for 8-bit color and grayscale images. You can determine which colors are actually being used, change an existing color to a different color, combine several color indices into a single mapped color, compress the palette, and even import and export palettes.

13. Rubbersheeting enhancements
Take images like scanned maps or photos and accurately fit them to survey coordinates
Take scanned plans and compensate them for scanning and paper distortions
The enhanced Rubbersheeting feature corrects distortions that prevent you from aligning an image in your drawing. For example, correlation by scanning or matching may not work on aerial photographs that have not been corrected for distortions related to parallax, unevenness of terrain, or lens distortion. In these cases, you can use rubbersheeting to permanently correct most of the distortions in an image.
The Triangular method performs a series of small, error-free, transformations. Grid selection techniques improve the efficiency of selecting control points by allowing you to create a custom grid of destination points.

14. General Functionality includes…
Full interactive raster-to-vector conversion
Complete raster editing tools
Image processing, rubbersheeting
Web support for reading and writing geo-referenced images
Raster Design 2004 extends the raster functionality in AutoCAD and the AutoCAD-based vertical applications.
When a project requires images from any source, Raster Design will help get the job done faster, smarter, better.

15. Raster Conversion and Revision
Vectorization Tools
Verify geometry for accurate results
Primitives - One-pick with SmartCorrect
Followers - Semi-automatic conversion
Raster Design 2004 simplifies the conversion and revision of raster data with streamlined and improved vectorization and raster manipulation tools.
When a vector or object model is required, one- touch commands that respect AutoCAD drafting settings dramatically increase accuracy and improve productivity.
Vectorization tools respect the powerful drafting settings in AutoCAD You verify the geometry as it is created, to ensure the highest degree of accuracy.

16. Raster Conversion and Revision
Raster Editing Tools
Sub-region editing for selected commands
Image Depth and Density
REM (Raster Entity Manipulation) with SmartPick
When revising images, raster data behaves like vector data, making it faster and easier than ever to work with scanned drawings and other imagery inside AutoCAD.
Change image depth and density to control image size and display. Edit small areas of raster images using despeckle, histogram and bi-tonal filters.

17. Raster Format Support Wavelet Format
Multi-resolution compression technology
Read georeferenced MrSID and ECW files
The availability of very large amounts raster data, especially for use in GIS, mapping and civil engineering projects, has increased in the last few years.
New compression technologies developed to decrease file size and increase transmission times when working with these large images.
Multi-resolution wavelet format files can compress data up to 50 times, so a 15 gigabyte uncompressed image might fit on a standard 650 megabyte CD-ROM disk. Raster Design 2004 adds support for reading georeferenced data in this format from the leading suppliers.

18. Key Benefits
Use and re-use existing design documents with raster revision and conversion capabilities
Add powerful visuals to project presentations with precision image integration
Leverage your investment in paper drawings, maps and photos along with new design data
Autodesk Raster Design is ideal for professionals who need to manage, convert, and edit all types of raster images inside AutoCAD and AutoCAD software-based products. Autodesk Raster Design adds value to your existing digital design and mapping data by
·         Allowing you to leverage existing hard-copy design and mapping data
·         Helping eliminate costly data reentry and therefore reducing your time to market
·         Helping to verify design and data accuracy during the design process
·         Securely communicating design intent electronically

19. For Building Design
Integrate existing documents with new designs and renovations
Improve productivity with fast and accurate drawing revision
Save time and money with accurate conversion tools
Now lets take a look at how Raster Design works For Building Design customers who need to integrate any existing drawings and imagery with new architectural designs and renovations, you can easily revise drawings or accurately convert lines, arcs, and circles created with Raster Design to walls, doors, windows, and other custom objects.

20. For Mapping and GIS Enhance projects with georeferenced imagery
Save money with advanced image processing and calibration tools
Quickly and accurately convert scanned maps
For Mapping and GIS users who need to interactively convert scanned maps and other raster images for integration into a GIS database, Raster Design provides a full palette of tools for processing, geo-referencing, calibrating, and editing imagery. Utilize geo-referenced imagery from aerial photos and satellite imagery to enhance projects and presentations.

21. For Civil Engineering
Create more powerful presentations that help get your projects approved faster
Use scanned maps, aerial photos, satellite imagery
Interactive conversions tools save time and money
For Civil Engineering professionals who need to incorporate scanned drawings, maps, aerial photos, and satellite imagery into land development projects, Raster Design saves time using interactive conversion instead of redrawing, and gets projects approved faster with compelling and easy-to-understand imagery.

22. For Manufacturing Revise and convert scanned assembly drawings
Create accurate models for new designs from existing documentation
Update existing engineering drawings with advanced raster editing tools
For mechanical design and manufacturing professionals (using AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical and Mechanical Desktop) who need to revise and convert scanned paper drawings, the interactive raster-to-vector conversion tools in Raster Design have the accuracy required to create precise CAD models for new designs. Raster editing tools save days of redrafting by quickly updating existing engineering documentation.
(Raster Design cannot be installed or used with Inventor.)

23. Benefits of Subscription
Easiest way to keep your Autodesk design tools up to date
One annual fee
Protects customer investment
Project cost vs. capital investment
Customers stay current with the latest technology.
As a financial decision, subscription is more attractive than an outright purchase, as it can be billed to a project, and there is no resultant asset on the balance sheet.
Raster Design -- Subscription Program
No modular expansions (extensions) for Raster Design
Currently Not available in all countries
Raster Design Price for new Subscription is $195 per year and a renewal subscription is $165.