Anyone who wants to edit, manage, and correlate raster images with AutoCAD can benefit from the capabilities of AutoCAD Raster Design toolset.
| Architects | To incorporate photographs and old hand-drawn plans into new vector data for planning and presentation purposes before remodeling, renovating, or doing historic reconstruction.
To show a project in context with its terrain using DEM imagery. |
| Cartographers | To take advantage of real-world coordinate support. When running on the AutoCAD GIS-based desktops, such as AutoCAD Land Desktop, and AutoCAD Map 3D toolset, AutoCAD Raster Design toolset gives you the ability to perform coordinate transformations. |
| Environmental specialists | To generate groundwater contours, locate wells, display the health of vegetation, plot contamination values, and use geo-referenced data for support of risk assessment. |
| Geo-exploration specialists and engineers | To use remote sensing data for exploration planning, strata mapping, and geotechnical applications. |
| Land planners | To analyze land drainage or to integrate imagery, maps, and terrain models into base maps that depict change analysis and land use. |
| Mechanical engineers | To easily update scanned drawings using REM commands and VTools. |
| Municipal and state mapping agencies | To use scanned tax maps and ordinance surveys as references for detailing city systems and GIS tasks. |
| Photogrammetric and Remote Sensing Firms | To use many image formats, including GeoTIFF and GeoSPOT.
To use correlation commands to integrate images into base maps. |
| Resource managers | To use scanned forest cover-type maps and soil maps, and georeferenced data and images for impact studies in forestry, soil science, hydrology, and wildlife management. |
| Surveyors |
To perform deed analysis using images for photogrammetric control by using the vectorization tools to convert raster to vector. |