Importing pencil drawing

barry gray

Hi Gang, newbee here,
I have a PDF of a 24"x36" architectural drawing. If I open in Photoshop or Illustrator and zoom in it's fine/clear. When imported to SU, I zoom in far enough to be able to see the detail well enough for tracing, the resolution goes to hell and it's unusable.
What do I need to know before I pay to have a future job scanned?
Thanks for any insight!

remus

SU can only handle textures that are 1024x1024.

As a workaround you can split the image up in photoshop and then import the sections in to SU and join them up.

Gaieus

Hi Barry,

What you need to know first of all is that SU (because it uses OpenGL) can only handle 1024pixel wide/high images. So if you import any raster image bigger than that it will be "rescaled" automatically.
PDF can be vector based however,so if you can get that and use any of your applications to export dxf/dwg, you can import that into SU as vectors.

Another "workaround" is to chop up your image files into pieces and import them into SU so that you "join" them here.

Or the best way would be to draw from sketch if you can get a dimensioned drawing. That would be the most precise.

barry gray

Thanks Guys,
I opened in Photoshop, cropped out the extraneous stuff, down sampled to 1024px max.,imported to SU, all is well! Now I can easily trace it.
Much Thanks