Getting started

Brief description: This lesson provides you with a basic knowledge of WiseImage - opening, saving, file export and import, navigating in document, drawing with precision, clipping raster images and printing. You will also learn how to create and work with WiseImage clipbooks.

Opening Files

Using the Open command of the File menu you can load:

  • WiseImage documents(*.cws).
  • AutoCAD files (*.dwg, *.dxf) (including hybrids, which contain raster images, - only for versions AutoCAD R14 and higher).
  • Raster images
    Formats: TIF (include Multipage Tagged Image File); RLC; BMP; IPG; IPEG; PCX; C4; CAL; TG4.
    IMPORTANT: if you open raster images using the Open command of the File menu, each of them is loaded in a new document. If you want to open raster images in the current document, use the Image command of the Insert menu.
  • Multipage TIF-files. All file pages are loaded in the document.
    IMPORTANT: If you need to load several pages from a multiple TIF-file, use the Image command of the Insert menu. You can view and load only the desired pages using the Load Page dialog box.
  • Hybrid and vector files, created in previous versions of the program (*.ws, *.aws, *.vc5, *.vc4).

Saving Files

Saving WiseImage Documents

  • Specify in the Image Manager the way you want to store raster images contained in the document - either in separate files or embedded in the document file.
  • Choose Save As from the File menu. Specify the document name, choose extension *.cws from the Save as type list.

Saving document in AutoCAD format

  • Choose Save As from the File menu. Specify the document name, choose extension *.dwg (*.dxf) from the Save as type list.
  • Press the Options button and specify AutoCAD version for the saved document.       
IMPORTANT: If you save data:

in format of AutoCAD R14 (AutoCAD LT 97) versions and higher

Program saves the hybrid document, which contains vector objects and raster images.
If the document contains embedded raster images, the program suggests saving them in separate files (as AutoCAD hybrid document is always linked).

in format of AutoCAD R13 (AutoCAD LT 95) versions and lower

Program saves vector data only.

Saving raster image

If you want to save only the raster image:

  • Open Image Manager by choosing Images from the Tools menu.
  • Select a raster image to save and press the Save or Save As button. Specify the image name, format, and additional options for the specified format      

Saving multipage raster TIF-file

  • Select images to save in multipage raster TIF-file.
    See section Raster Image Selection for detailed information.
  • Choose Save Multipage from the File menu. Specify the name and additional options for TIF format.       

Import and Export

Table of import formats and imported objects:

Import format

Imported object

Microstation format (*.dgn).

Vector objects

To import a file, choose Import from the File menu. Specify the vector file and press Open.

Table of export formats and exported objects:

Export format

Exported object

WiseImage format (*.cws)

AutoCAD format (*.dwg, *.dxf) of R14 (AutoCAD LT 97) versions and higher

Vector objects and/or raster images

AutoCAD format (*.dwg, *.dxf) of R13 (AutoCAD LT 95) versions and lower.

MapInfo format (*.mid).

Vector objects

To export in the specified formats:

  • Select data, if you want to export only selected objects.
    See section Object selection methods of vector and raster data for detailed information.
  • Choose Export from the File menu. Specify the name and additional options for the specified format.
  • If you want to export only selected objects select the Selection Only checkbox.
  • Press Save.

Navigating in a Document

Navigation tools are designed to help you work within a document. You can choose navigation tools from the View menu or from the Main toolbar.

Standard navigation tools

Zoom All - displays a whole document.

Zoom Previous - returns to the previous display.

Zoom Selected - displays selected objects.

Zoom Window - increases a fragment selected with window, to full screen size.

Zoom In - doubles an image size.

Zoom Out - decreases an image size by half.

Zoom 1:1 - displays the document in real scale.

Pan - moves a document within program window in specified direction.

Zoom Dynamic - turns on the mode in which you can increase scale by moving the mouse up and decrease scale by moving the mouse down.

Birds Eye

 When working with a large document you can use the overall window to display an entire document and the border(s) of current views.

To open the Birds Eye window, choose Birds Eye from the View menu.

Turning on/off visibility of vector object width

You can toggle the visibility of vector object widths. If turned off, all vector objects are displayed with zero width (i.e. 1 pixel of display resolution).
To turn on/off visibility of vector object widths choose Show Width of the View menu turned on/off.

Turning on/off visibility of raster and vector graphics

For convenient work you can turn toggle the visibility of all vector objects or raster images in the document. The buttons are located in the View menu and on the Main toolbar.

To turn off (on) the vector visibility press (release) the Hide Vectors button

To turn off (on) the raster visibility press (release) the Hide Raster button

Changing object display order

You can change the object display order (vector objects and raster images), moving selected objects to front and back, or backward and forward.
Select objects and use the corresponding command from the Display Order list of the View menu.
See section Object selection methods of vector and raster data for detailed information.

Named views

You can specify views of different fragments of your document and save them with specified names. The program remembers the current document scale and position on the screen.

To create a new named view:

  • Locate a desired image fragment on the screen using the navigation tools described above.
  • Enter the view name in the field, located in the right part of the Properties toolbar.
  • Press the   button, located next to the Named new field.

To delete a named view, select it from the list and press the  button.

Precise Drawing Tools

The following drawing tools are available to aid precise drawing: snap to characteristic points of vector and raster objects, polar snap, grid display, snap to grip nodes; orthogonal drawing mode.

To turn on/off a tool you can use the buttons located in the lower-right part of the screen.

Object Snap

WiseImage allows you to snap to characteristic points of vector and raster objects. Furthermore, you can snap to vector and raster objects at the same time. You can also use running snap and snap on demand.

INFORMATION: You can choose snap on demand by right-clicking with the Ctrl key pressed.

Raster snap

Vector snap

Tuning Object Snap:

  • Choose Snap Setup from the Tools menu.
  • In the Snap Setup dialog box:
  • Choose snap option - raster and/or vector
  • Choose snap type(s)
  • Set snap on demand - type of objects to snap to.
    If you have not selected any checkbox in Snap On Demand, the program will execute snap to the data selected in the Object Snap option.

Tuning Raster Snap

IMPORTANT: Raster snap quality is influenced by your image geometry.
You can tune raster snap using the R2V Conversion Options dialog box.

Choose Conversion Options from the Convert menu, and then go to the Options tab.

Specify the following values:
Max Width - maximum width of a raster object, to which characteristic points you want to snap. Specify this parameter value slightly greater than the maximum width of the raster line.
Accuracy - parameter corresponding to your raster image accuracy. Use greater values for images of good quality and smaller values for images of poor quality

Polar Snap

Choose Snap Setup from the Tools menu. Select the checkbox in the Polar Snap field of the Snap Setup dialog box, and then specify angle for polar snap.

Grid and Grid Snap

  • Choose Grid Setup from the Tools menu.
  • In the open Grid Setup dialog, specify the grid size in horizontal and vertical directions. Select (clear) the checkboxes for display of grid and grid nodes.

Orthogonal Drawing Mode

You can switch to orthogonal drawing mode by pressing the ORTHO button, located in the lower-right part of the screen.
INFORMATION: The direction for ORTHO mode is defined in correspondence with the document coordinate system axis direction.

Image Clip

You can set a clip area for a raster image. Setting a clip area saves computer resources, speeding up command execution, preventing modification of the image part located outside of the clip.
There are two types of clip - rectangular and polygonal. You can set only one clip on the same image.

How to set or reset clip:

  • If there are several images in your document select one to clip.
    See section Raster Image Selection for detailed information.
  • Choose Image Clip from the Image menu, and then Rectangular (for rectangular clip) or Polygonal (for arbitrary shaped clip).
  • To reset clip choose Image Clip from the menu Image, and then Reset.

WiseImage Clipbooks

You can store raster, vector and hybrid objects in WiseImage clipbooks. You can copy any unit comprised in the clipbook and place them anywhere in your document.
Clipbooks are stored in separate files; their component units can be used in different documents. You can open several clipbooks at the same time.

  • To open a new clipbook choose Clipbook from the Tools menu.
  • To open an existing clipbook choose Clipbook from the Tools menu, and then press the Open button , located in the clipbook window. Find the file of the desired clipbook, and then press the Open button.
  • To add a new unit to the clipbook:
    • Choose raster, vector or hybrid unit
      See section Selection for detailed information on raster, vector and hybrid selection methods.
    • Drag the selected objects to the clipbook
      - or -
      copy the selected object using the Copy command of the Edit menu or with the Ctrl+C acceleration keys. Then place cursor on the clipbook field and right-click; choose Paste from the appeared context menu.
  • To save the new or modified clipbook press the  Save or Save as button.

Print

To open the Print dialog, choose Print from the File menu.

  • Using the Printer field you can select the printing device installed on your computer and change its current parameters.
  • Using the Area field you can specify the print area - whole document, visible document part or rectangular window, which can be specified on the screen or by corners' coordinates.
  • You can also specify scale, margins and paper alignment.
  • You can preview printing results on the screen.

INFORMATION: By turning off visibility of layers in the Layer Manager you can print only specified layers.
INFORMATION: If raster images and vector objects are located one over another, before printing you should set up raster images visibility in Image Manager and the object display order using the Display order command of the View menu.
See section Changing object display order for detailed information.

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