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AutoCAD has the ability to reference non-native AutoCAD files as well so for example you could bring a raster image in such as a JPEG from an aerial photograph of the site where we're going to build our new property. There's a new layer called Raster Images in this drawing and what we're going to do, we're going to go to the Insert Tab and the good thing is in the Reference Panel I can attach anything I want to. So I click on Attach here. What I'm going to do is go and find a JPEG file called Prop Dev Site, Proposed Development Site. I click on it, there's a preview of it there, I click on Open and it's very similar to the External References Dialog Box. So we get a preview, we get a path type. I'm going to use a relative path because the JPEG file is in the same folder as my current drawing and insertion point wise I'm going to specify that on the screen this time. Scale, I'm going to leave at one for the moment. Rotation I'm also going to leave at zero. I click on OK now and as you can see there it's prompting me to specify an insertion point. What I'm going to do is I'm going to utilize this corner here and left click. I zoom in now and I'm using the corner of my existing XREF there and if I zoom in, it's very small at the moment. I need to move it too. So I click on the outline. Notice I go to the Image Tab on the ribbon so I can work with that image. I can change the brightness, the contrast, the fade, the transparency and so on. What I'm going to do is just right click and use Move first of all, take this top-left corner to the top-left corner like so of the XREF. Now, what I can do here is I can actually edit this JPEG using grips. So if I click there and click on that grip there and start dragging to make it bigger using the stretch tool on the grip commands, I'm now going to roll right back on my wheel mouse and pan across and take this grip all the way to this opposing diagonal corner here and left click. As you can see now, it's made the non-native reference much bigger but it's actually superimposed it on top of my proposed house design. So if I now right click and change the draw order of my non-native reference and send it to the back, you can now see my proposed house design there. What I can do now is I can also, if I want to, click on the non-native reference, right click, move, pick a point in the center somewhere and I can mov it around. So I can now actually move it and take it somewhere else, let's say there and as you can see, based on where I've moved it coordinate-wise now, it's not exactly on top of my proposed house design anymore. You can do this to your heart's content, until you get the scale right, till you get the positioning of your new property right. To make sure that you've got an aerial view of the new property, this will then actually plot when you plot the drawing as well. So as you can see, AutoCAD has the ability to take on board non-native file types, graphics files such as jpegs, bitmaps, TIF files, GIF files. This would be very useful to show our new proposed house design on the Internet for example. We could create something like a dwf file, which is the Autodesk equivalent of a pdf and that could go onto a website to show the proposed house design to the person that we're designing the house for, for example. As you can see, AutoCAD supports non-native file types, especially useful in a design environment like this.