How To Plot CAD PNG Output The free AutoCad DWG Trueview program can easily create a 14400 x 9600 .png image from a 24 x 36 .dwg drawing. Recent versions of AutoCad can do this also. If your CAD program can't produce this type of image, you will need to load your .dwg file into TrueView. Here is a view of the TrueView plot dialog (similar to AutoCad) showing the setup needed. The peach-colored boxes are the ones we changed from the defaults: Notice the selected plotter is the PNG driver. You have to press properties and add a custom page size to get the 14400 x 9600 pixel size. It is simply 36 wide x 24 high at 400 dpi. Select a scale setting that will fill the page as shown in the preview. Wilhome.dwg needed a custom scale to match the 400 dpi, but it depends on how the .dwg file was created. Yours may be different. Use the monochrome.ctb pen settings or use a modified one that matches your drawing pen widths. For routine work, the various settings will not change, and it will be a matter of a few clicks to set up the plot. This plotter scenario will be very familiar to AutoCad users, and the Trueview help may answer any questions that come up. Shutting Off Layers If the .dwg file has dimensions, notes, or other fine detail, it is generally easier to colorize without these present. You can shut these layers off and get a .png file wiwthout them. Here's a view of the TrueView layer control with the fine detail layers shut off: After plotting a .png without fine detail, plot one with only the fine detail. Load that into ColorCaps on top of the colorization.