How to turn a hand-drawn floor plan into a DXF or DWG file (3 ways, and where each one breaks)

<p>Most floor plans start as a sketch on paper. CAD programs do not read sketches. A photo of your drawing is a grid of pixels, and AutoCAD, Revit or any laser cutter wants vectors: lines with real coordinates and a scale. There are three ways to get from one to the other. I work on a tool in the third group, so read that part knowing it.</p> <h3> 1. Trace it yourself in CAD </h3> <p>Attach the ph

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