Import Artworks
EagleWorks is not intended to be a complete drawing software, you would use an external one like Illustrator, CorelDRAW, AutoCAD, Photoshop etc. When you have an artwork ready in one of these software, the next step is to import it into EagleWorks.
Click Import… in the pulldown-menu File, or click 
to bring up the dialog Import, select a file and click Open.
EagleWorks supports a lot of file formats, i.e. dxf, ai, plt, bmp, jpeg, etc. Not all features of every format will be supported, for vector graphics, we recommend to use old version dxf files for better compatibility.
The artwork will be placed at the center of the draw area by default, be selected and zoomed to fit the drawing window. And, the software may perform a set of optimizations automatically which you can adjust in settings.
Click System Setting in the pulldown-menu Config.
In the page Import/Export, you can change the default position to place the imported artwork in the option Docking import data.
When importing a dxf file, make sure that the size unit in the option DXF Unit is the same as the artwork, otherwise, you will get it in wrong scale.
For vector graphics, check the option Combine lines, the option Auto close curves and set tolerance values to connect or close any lines or curves that are close enough or with a very small opening automatically.
For images, check the option Import image to RDImage for doing the image processing in EagleWorks, refer here for more details.
Vector Graphics Optimizations
Sometimes, there are still scattered lines, curves and other sorts of issues left in the artwork after the default optimizations of importing, it is due to that the issues exceed the range of the corrections that the optimizations can make.
Click Data check in the pulldown-menu Handle to bring up the dialog Data check, check all the options, and click Check, then you will get a list of issues, and all of the lines, curves and outlines with issues will be selected automatically.
In this example, the gaps between the two curves are too big to be closed automatically.
In these cases, you need to correct the issues manually by yourself. Here is a list of the optimization functions which are in the pulldown-menu Handle.
| Button | Menu Command | Function |
|---|---|---|
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Curve auto close | Close any lines and curves with an opening that is smaller than the tolerance value. |
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Combine curve | Connect any lines and curves that are closer together than the tolerance value. |
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Delete overlap | Delete overlapped lines, curves and outlines. |
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Curve smooth | Recover smooth shapes from jagged lines. |
Let’s go through the steps for connecting curves that are very close to each other. The other functions work the similar way.
Select the curves which are going to be connected, and then click Combine curve in the pulldown-menu Handle.
Set a tolerance value bigger than the size of the gap and click Ok, then the curves will be connected with each other.
Click Measure in the pulldown-menu Tool to measure the gap if you have no idea about how big it is. Left click on both ends of the gap, you will get the size which appears on the status bar.
