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pic2CAD

Image to CAD

A person, a piece of furniture, an object, a plant, a pet, a car: pic2CAD reduces whatever the picture shows to a line drawing you can use as PNG, SVG or DXF, in whatever CAD or design app you already work in.

Try it with your own picture
Before and after: a puppy image turned into a CAD line block
Before and after: a puppy image turned into a CAD line block

How it works

01

Upload a picture

Any picture works: one you shoot yourself, a reference from a client, or a sketch you already have.

02

pic2CAD draws the line art

The picture becomes a clean line drawing in about a minute. Generating uses 1 credit, and you get it back if the drawing fails.

03

Download PNG, SVG, DXF and DWG

Every format, every time; the DWG is under the + button in My drawings. Downloading is always free, however many times you need the file.

How pic2CAD helps

Reference pictures pile up, but none of them are a drawing you can put in a CAD file or an editable vector file. Turning one into the other by hand takes longer than the rest of the job.

pic2CAD isolates whatever you click, a person, a piece of furniture, an object, a plant, an animal or a vehicle, and traces it into line work delivered as PNG, SVG and DXF. The SVG opens as editable paths in Illustrator, the PNG drops straight into a render, and the DXF opens in AutoCAD, Revit, Rhino, ArchiCAD or BricsCAD.

Ideal for

  • Designers who need a CAD-ready base from a reference picture
  • Illustrators looking for a clean line layer to paint or ink over
  • Architecture students converting a reference into a usable block
  • Anyone without drafting skills who still needs a vector line drawing

What you can convert

Click the subject and pic2CAD draws it, whatever it is. Each example opens a page about that kind of block.

Frequently asked questions

JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC (the iPhone format), plus PDF, up to 30 MB per file. You can queue several pictures at once.
PNG, SVG and DXF with every drawing. From My drawings you can also download PDF and EPS at real scale.
Open it in AutoCAD or insert it into a drawing you already have. Rhino and SketchUp Pro import it, and ArchiCAD opens or merges it. The unit is the millimetre, so set your drawing to millimetres and the block lands at the right size: the real height you typed in Orthographic view, or 1 metre tall in Subject only.
Yes. Click whoever or whatever you want drawn in the picture; only what you select gets traced. Busy backgrounds are fine, they get dropped.
No. Click the subject and it traces whatever shape is there, a person, a chair, a plant, an animal or a vehicle; there is no category to choose first.
The SVG opens as editable paths in Illustrator or a similar app, and the DXF keeps Outer, Inner and Fill on separate layers so you can adjust it in CAD.
A picture where the subject is reasonably sharp and not heavily overlapped by something else. Very low light, strong motion blur, or a subject that is mostly hidden will show up in the drawing.

Related

Just the DXF specificsOne block, every formatA scale figure for elevationsOne piece of furniture as a blockFront, side and top views from one pictureFurniture and plants for interior designersEntourage from your own picturesBrowse the example galleryCompare with other tools
Try it with your own picture