Released alongside AutoCAD 2025, AutoCAD Raster Design 2025.0 (x64) remains the only official Autodesk tool that turns scanned drawings, aerial photos, and legacy raster files into fully editable, intelligent DWG content.
Key Highlights of Raster Design 2025.0
- One-Click Vectorization Upgrade New AI-assisted “Smart Vectorize” converts scanned lines, arcs, circles, and text with up to 92 % accuracy on clean drawings – no more manual tracing for hours.
- Improved OCR Engine Updated Tesseract 5 core now recognizes handwritten notes, rotated text blocks, and 40+ new fonts out of the box.
- Georeferenced Raster Support Direct import of GeoTIFF, MrSID, ECW, and JPEG2000 with automatic world file alignment – perfect for GIS and survey teams.
- Raster-to-Vector Cleanup Tools
- Enhanced despeckle and deskew with live preview
- “Merge Collinear” now works on raster entities before conversion
- Smart rubber-sheeting for distorted scans
- Hybrid Editing Edit raster and vector in the same session: rub, blend, transparency, and image clipping all updated for AutoCAD 2025 dark theme.
- Performance 64-bit only, multi-threaded processing – large 500 MB TIFFs open and process 3–4× faster than 2024 version.
- Other Fixes
- Full compatibility with AutoCAD 2025.3 toolsets
- Fixed clipping mask issues on high-DPI monitors
- Better PDF underlay correlation
System Requirements
- Windows 11 64-bit (or Windows 10 22H2)
- Same as AutoCAD 2025 (16 GB RAM minimum, 32 GB recommended)
- 4 GB VRAM GPU recommended for large scans
Download AutoCAD Raster Design 2025.0 (x64) Free Download from your Autodesk Account (included with AutoCAD subscription or AEC Collection) and breathe new life into every legacy drawing in your archive.