Convert Scanned Drawings To CAD With New Scan2CAD v7
Cambridge, England - 14th January 2004. Softcover has released Scan2CAD v7, a much improved new version of the market leading low cost raster to vector convertor which allows PC CAD users to turn scanned drawings into accurate DXF vector files for editing in any PC CAD program, like AutoCAD 2004, LT or similar, as well as CNC and other design programs.
Softcover claim that by extending Scan2CAD v7’s drawing element recognition to include dashed lines, lined hatch patterns, Bezier curves and arrow lines, etc, and by improving its overall conversion accuracy, Scan2CAD v7 now offers PC CAD users the least expensive way to achieve the most accurate, professional quality conversion results from scanned drawings.
Scan2CAD Regular converts monochrome (black / white) drawings only while Pro converts monochrome and colour raster files and adds extra features like Batch processing, OCR Font Training and an OCR Text Editor. Scan2CAD Pro removes the complexity from colour vectorisation by automatically reducing the 16.7 million colours in a 24-bit scanned image into a manageable set of 256 colours or less, as required by the AutoCAD standard.
Scan2CAD can open and vectorise any size of paper drawing saved in a variety of popular raster formats, like BMP (bitmaps), CALS, GIF, IMG, JPEG PCX, TIFF, (including GEOTIFF with coordinate data for mapping, etc.) and PNG (Portable Network Graphics).
It supports the TWAIN standard allowing users to Acquire (scan) drawings from inside Scan2CAD using any size of TWAIN-compliant scanner up to A0-sizes. A tiling feature allows large paper drawings to be scanned on desktop scanners as a series of “tiles”. Tiles can be assembled and merged inside Scan2CAD using drag-and-drop tools, vectorised and saved as DXF to the same size and scale as the original paper drawing.
