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194 CHAPTER 6 ELEVATING THE ELEVATION

In the following steps, you will convert the entire elevation drawing from the CD as a single image.
Later in this chapter, you’ll see how you can reimport additional information from CAD once your
Photoshop project is underway.
1. Launch AutoCAD and open the file Elevation.dwg from the Chapter 6 folder on the compan-
ion CD (see Figure 6.1).

Figure 6.1
Elevation line drawing
in AutoCAD

NOTE I’m using AutoCAD 2005 in this book, but the .dwg files on the CD are stored in AutoCAD
2000 format for backward compatibility.
2. One the Command line, type LAYER and press Enter. The Layer Properties Manager dialog
box (see Figure 6.2) shows how this drawing’s layers are organized: numerical layer names
range from Elev-1 through Elev-7 (plus layer 0), and each layer has a different line-weight set-
ting. Click the Cancel button; this step was for your information only.

Figure 6.2
The Layer Properties
Manager dialog box