Inserting Images

You can place images — such as photographs or diagrams — directly into your drawing. Supported formats: BMP, JPG, PNG, GIF, and WMF.

How to Insert an Image

  1. Select an image in Windows Explorer, press Ctrl + C, then Ctrl + V in the ProfiCAD drawing.
  2. Drag an image from Windows Explorer directly into the ProfiCAD drawing.
  3. Use Insert - Image from the menu — a dialog box opens where you pick the file.
  4. Paste a picture from the clipboard.
Dialog window for inserting images

Keep Your Images Lean

⚠️ Large images bloat your document size. Before inserting, resize the image and adjust its resolution in a graphics editor. Avoid inserting multi-megabyte images.

Pasting Pictures from Clipboard

Need to grab something from a PDF catalog or another app? You can paste images straight from the Windows clipboard — no need to save to a file first.

  1. In the source PDF, zoom in as much as possible to get a sharp capture. Use the Zoom In command or scroll with the mouse wheel while holding Ctrl.
  2. Take a screenshot:
    • For Windows 10, press Win + Shift + S.
    • For older systems, press PrtScn.
  3. Switch to ProfiCAD and press Ctrl + V.

Resizing an Image

Select the image and drag one of its corner handles. The image resizes symmetrically — its center stays in the same place.

If you hold the Alt key while dragging, the resize is not symmetrical — the opposite corner stays anchored, so the image grows or shrinks toward the corner you are dragging.

Image Size Limits

Maximum size of a single image: 10 MB. Larger files are rejected. To fix this, reduce the image resolution or save it in a more efficient format (e.g. PNG or JPG instead of BMP).

Warning above 5 MB. Images larger than 5 MB can be inserted, but the program shows a warning first — large images may slow down your document. You can continue or cancel.

Protection against extremely large images. Even a small file (e.g. a compressed JPG) can take up a huge amount of memory once opened, if its resolution is very high. Such images are also rejected — reduce the resolution and try again.

Total limit per document: 100 MB. The combined size of all images in one document should not exceed 100 MB. When exceeded, the program shows a warning and suggests removing unused images.

💡 Tip: If an image is too large, reduce its resolution in any graphics editor (even Paint will do). For schematics and drawings, a resolution up to 1920 × 1080 pixels is usually more than enough.

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