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Turn your own site pictures into CAD blocks you actually own

Skip the generic block library. Convert the people, furniture or equipment from your own pictures into a DXF, SVG and PNG at the scale you choose.

Try it with your own picture
Before and after: a man skateboarding on a beach boardwalk turned into a scale figure for elevations
Before and after: a man skateboarding on a beach boardwalk turned into a scale figure for elevations

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

Generic block libraries rarely match what is actually on site: the wrong chair, unfamiliar equipment, furniture that looks nothing like the piece that was specified. Redrawing it by hand for one plan is slow, and paying for another library subscription for a single block rarely makes sense.

pic2CAD turns your own site pictures, furniture, equipment or the people in them, into a line block you own. Export it as a DXF in millimetres, at the height you set in Orthographic view or as a fixed reference block in Select a subject mode, ready to drop into AutoCAD, Revit or ArchiCAD.

Ideal for

  • Studios building their own block library from their own site pictures
  • Renders and elevations where the furniture or equipment should look intentional
  • Engineering drawings that need a specific piece of equipment, not a stand-in
  • Competition boards that need their own entourage instead of a stock library

For architecture students

Free to start, and the files fit a university drawing as they come.

  • You or a classmate can be the scale figure on your boards. One full-body picture is enough. Figures for your boards
  • The Free plan gives you 1 drawing a month, and it renews every month. No card needed.
  • The 2D Library has free people blocks you can download and place today. Browse the people blocks
  • The DXF is in millimetres. Type the real height in Orthographic view and the figure drops into a 1:50 or 1:100 drawing at the right size, with no rescaling. See the orthographic views

Frequently asked questions

Millimetres, the unit AutoCAD, Revit and ArchiCAD expect. In Orthographic view you set the real height and the block scales to match; in Select a subject mode it exports as a 1 metre reference block you scale yourself.
Yes, that's the point: turn the people and furniture you actually work with into blocks instead of a stock library. You confirm you have permission from anyone in the picture before it can be shared with others.
Yes. The same pipeline traces chairs, lamps, tables or equipment into a line block, the same way it draws a person for your entourage: white fill inside, a heavy outline outside.
Yes. Each picture is its own generation, saved to your account, so the furniture, equipment and entourage for a whole project build up into one library as you go.

Related

Custom entourage for elevationsEntourage from your own picturesFurnitureBrowse the 2D Library
Try it with your own picture