

In the previous drawing, the Plex-Earth's imagery is already available for viewing. Step 3: Bring the saved tiles into AutoCAD as raster images In order to locally save the imagery tiles that make up the mosaic, follow the steps below:ġ) Click "Save" from the Imagery Manager.Ģ) Select the folder where you want Plex-Earth 5 to save the imagery tiles.ģ) Each imagery tile is now stored in your computer along with an accompanying World File.Ĥ) A message will pop-up, in order to open the folder where the images were stored. Step 1: Import a Mosaicīefore importing a mosaic, the drawing must be georeferenced. The ability to save images locally is only available in the Plex-Earth 5 Business plan, as part of the Mosaic Feature. In those cases, a Plex-Earth 5 license or a Viewer is necessary. Some providers, like Google Maps, do not allow, by their Terms of Use, to legally download locally their content. The providers who offer this capability are the following: Therefore, in this tutorial, we will go through all the necessary steps, in order to download and save locally to your hard drive imagery created with Plex-Earth. dwg drawing to other software, like InfraWorks, SketchUp, 3ds Max etc.

For example, you might want to work offline or import your. However, there are cases, where creating a local copy of imagery is required. Adding to that, our low-cost Viewer makes the Plex-Earth imagery available to people who do not own a Plex-Earth 5 subscription, thus making imagery sharing very easy. This is very convenient, as the AutoCAD user does not have to worry about external references or large files. When imagery is imported in AutoCAD with Plex-Earth, these images are stored in our servers and automatically re-fetched and shown by our software, each time the drawing is opened.
