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People to CAD block

Draw your own architectural entourage: your team, your clients or the people from a site picture, instead of borrowing a stranger from a block library.

Try it with your own picture
Before and after: a young man in a cap sitting on a wall, turned into a CAD line block
Before and after: a young man in a cap sitting on a wall, 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

Every elevation figure library has the same handful of poses everyone else already uses. A board full of the same stock people stops looking like your project.

pic2CAD draws the person straight from your picture: click who you want drawn, set the real height in Orthographic view, or get a known 1 metre reference block in Select a subject mode. It arrives as a DXF with the feet on the floor line, ready to scale to any height you need in a plan, a section or an elevation.

Ideal for

  • Architecture students who need their own entourage for a plan, a section or a board
  • Studios drawing their site team or their regular clients into a plan
  • Anyone tired of the same recognisable stock figures everyone else uses
  • Presentations and competition boards that need a real scale reference

Frequently asked questions

It is a simplified line drawing, outer outline and inner detail, not a lifelike likeness: faces and fine features are not rendered the way a picture would show them.
Yes, in Orthographic view you type the real height before generating and the DXF is written in millimetres at that size. In Select a subject the block arrives 1 metre tall as a reference: scale it in CAD to whatever height you need.
For a true elevation figure, yes: a full-body shot keeps the proportions honest and lets the feet land on the floor line at Y = 0. A cropped or half-body picture still generates a block, just not one you can scale as a standing figure.
Yes. Click whoever you want drawn: one person, or several in the same picture. Only what you select gets traced.

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Try it with your own picture