Using CAD to map archeological sites:

CAD software can be used in a number of ways to great effect when mapping archeological sites.

It is possible to scan hand drawn sketches (taken from field book data) and place these into the CAD environment. The hand sketch image file can then be scaled such that true distance are reported when the DISTANCE command is used. Then, standard CAD drawing tools such as lines, polylines and blocks can used to trace over the field book data as shown in the figure below. The coloured entities in the lower part of the figure below have been added in the CAD software (in this case IntelliCAD was used, but AutoCAD or TiCAD could have been used).