Is there anyway of transferring a very basic 2d site layout onto auto cad?

Question

I am just starting to learn cad and need help?

I want an easy way to transfer a paper drawing to cad.

Answer 1

You can scan it and use the image as the background and then trace it. If you want I can develop a software which will identify the edges and draw lines. mail [e-mail] for more

Answer 2

For very basic layouts, just draw it fresh.

The rest of my people:
Yes. The Scan answer is good for getting paper plans back into our cad world.
We looked into making it real vector lines but too expensive or lines would have been badly exploded.
I saw a civil engineering office scan a plan and let the raster image stay as part of the final print. They used any photo editor program to erase spots on copy of the image. They drew their new stuff in AutoCAD over the erased spots.
But image could be blanked out in any spot by your imageclip
Image and all can be scaled to actual size like this:
Insert image at any scale.
Rotate it to adjust for how it scanned crooked.
I draw a line along an object in the image and use the REFERENCE option in the rotate command.
Then find something big on the image that you know the length of.
The bigger the better. Draw a line the correct distance from one end of it. Draw something (let's say point B) as close as you can to the point on the image where that distance should end.

Scale command.
select image. enter. pick the first end. r (reference option). enter.pick the first end again. pick your point B. pick the other end of your correct-size line.enter.

Imageclip command with P option to clean off old border and stuff.