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pic2CAD

Create CAD blocks from photos

For architects, interior designers and architecture students: one picture in, one block out. PNG for a quick render, SVG for a design app, DXF for CAD, all from the same generation.

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

A generic block from a library is never quite the right person, object or piece of furniture, and it always looks like it came from a library, because it did.

pic2CAD builds the block from your own picture instead: white fill inside, heavy outline outside, in millimetres, delivered as PNG, SVG and DXF so it drops straight into a plan, a board or a design file. Use it once or save it and reuse it as many times as you like.

Ideal for

  • Studios building their own block library from their own people and furniture
  • Architecture students who need people and furniture for plans, elevations and sections
  • Interior designers who want the client's real furniture as a block
  • Anyone tired of a catalogue block that almost, but not quite, fits

Frequently asked questions

Yes. Once generated, it is saved to your account and you can download it again at no cost whenever you need it, in a new plan or a new project.
Only one: you cannot resell or redistribute the block itself as a stand-alone file. Everything else, a paid plan, a client's project, a printed board, is fine on every pic2CAD plan, Free included.
PNG for a quick render or a slide, SVG to keep editing it in a design app, DXF to place it in CAD: one generation gives you all three, so you decide later which one the job actually needs.
Yes. A block can come from a picture of a person, a piece of furniture, or any other object; click what you want traced and only that gets drawn.

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Try it with your own picture