Image to DWG Converter
Put a picture into AutoCAD as real geometry instead of a linked image. This page traces logos, stamps, sketches and sign artwork from any common image format into closed polylines and saves them as a DWG.
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Model space is the full drawing. All layouts exports each paper-space sheet as its own page, as set up in AutoCAD.
Fit to page scales the drawing to fill the sheet. Actual size keeps drawing units 1:1 (1 mm in the drawing = 1 mm on paper) and may span a larger page.
Same as source uses the size set in each layout. A1 and A0 are the usual plotter sheets for architectural drawings.
Auto turns the page to match the drawing's longer side.
Monochrome prints every line black, like plotting with a monochrome.ctb style — best for printed plans on white paper.
White suits printing. Black looks like the AutoCAD drawing area; transparent works for placing the drawing in other documents (not available in JPG).
300 DPI is print quality; 150 is enough for screens. At A1 and 600 DPI an image is 14,000 px wide, so higher values make very large files.
Only used when the input is a photo or scan (JPG, PNG). Outline draws the edges of shapes, good for logos and laser cutting; centreline draws single lines through strokes, good for scanned line drawings and plotters.
Pixels darker than this become lines. Raise it if faint lines are missing, lower it if background noise turns into shapes.
Higher values give fewer, smoother curves; lower values follow the pixels more closely but create more points.
How to use this tool
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Upload the images
Add up to 20 PNG, JPG, BMP, TIFF, GIF or WebP files, 95 MB each. Crop each one to just the artwork you need.
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Review the trace settings
Defaults are Outlines with Smoothing at 60 for clean curves on logos. Use Centrelines for pen sketches, and move Black/white threshold if parts go missing or specks appear.
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Convert to DWG
Press Convert to DWG. Files are saved in the AutoCAD 2013 format, which every release from 2013 onward opens.
Attach an image or convert it to DWG geometry
AutoCAD has always been able to show a picture: attach it as a raster reference and it appears in the drawing. But the DWG only stores a path to the file. Send the drawing without the image and the recipient sees an empty frame with a file name in it, and nothing in the picture can be snapped to, hatched or offset.
A traced DWG is the opposite trade. The shapes are entities inside the drawing, so they copy, plot and survive eTransmit packages without anything attached, and object snaps work on their vertices. You give up color and tone; tracing keeps only the shapes that cross the black/white threshold. For a logo, a stamp, a signature or a line sketch, that is exactly what you wanted.
Image attached
1 IMAGE
A reference to an outside file; no snaps, breaks if the file moves
Image traced to DWG
Polylines
Closed shapes stored in the drawing; snap, hatch, scale
What the image-to-DWG file contains
- Closed polylines
- Every dark shape becomes a polyline loop; letters keep their inner loops.
- A single layer
- All traced shapes share one layer, ready to move onto your own layer standard.
- Pixel-based size
- There is no real-world scale in an image, so scale by reference to one known length.
- No text or dimensions
- Letters and numbers in the picture become shapes, not editable text.
ANY I
Any image
This tool accepts common image formats, including JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, GIF, BMP and TIFF. The format is detected automatically from the file, so you do not need to know what kind of image you have.
DWG
AutoCAD Drawing
DWG is the native file format of Autodesk AutoCAD, used since 1982. It stores 2D and 3D design data, including geometry, layers, dimensions, blocks and metadata, and is the standard for architecture, engineering and construction drawings. The format is proprietary and changes between AutoCAD versions, so older software may not open newer files. Viewing requires AutoCAD, a free viewer such as DWG TrueView, or a compatible CAD program.
- Compression
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- Transparency
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- Animation
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- Introduced
- 1982 · Autodesk
People convert an image to DWG to get artwork such as a logo, a stamp or a sketch into AutoCAD as geometry that plots, snaps and scales, instead of a linked picture that breaks when the file moves.
Which images convert well to DWG
High contrast and sharp edges beat everything else. A logo exported as a PNG, a stamp scanned on a flatbed, or a pen sketch photographed in even daylight all trace cleanly. Gradients, shadows and photographic detail do not. A PNG is the cleanest starting point, and PNG to DWG is tuned for exactly that. If the drawing is going to a laser cutter or CAM program rather than AutoCAD, image to DXF uses the same trace and saves the exchange format those programs prefer.
Image to DWG questions
How do I put a company logo into an AutoCAD title block?
Trace the logo here with Outlines, open the DWG, and copy the outlines into your title block drawing. Make them a block, fill them with a SOLID hatch so they print as solid shapes, and scale the block to fit the logo box. If the logo exists as SVG, SVG to DWG skips tracing and gives exact curves.
Can I check the DWG without owning AutoCAD?
Yes. Autodesk's free DWG TrueView opens and plots DWG files on Windows, and Autodesk Viewer shows them in a browser. Either is enough to confirm the trace looks right before you send it to someone who works in AutoCAD.
Why is the DWG saved as AutoCAD 2013 and not 2018?
The 2013 format opens in AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT from 2013 onward, so it also reaches offices still running 2015 or 2017. A traced image uses nothing that needed the 2018 format. Choose 2018 or an older version under AutoCAD version whenever you know the recipient's release.
Why are the curves made of many short straight segments?
Tracing writes polylines, and a curve in a polyline is approximated by short segments. At normal zoom they look smooth. PEDIT's Fit or Spline option rounds them further, at the cost of moving vertices slightly.
Can a map or aerial photo be traced into a useful DWG?
Rarely. Maps and photos have many colors and soft edges, so tracing produces blobs. Attach the image as a reference, scale it to a known distance, and draw the roads or boundaries you need on top.
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