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Taking photographs for raster to vector conversion

February 16, 2010

Users sometimes send us photos of objects they’d like to vectorize the outline of using our Scan2CAD raster to vector conversion software.
Unfortunately, using raster to vector software to vectorize the outline of an object on a photo is not as simple as it sounds. One reason for this is that before you can vectorize the [...]

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Drawing outlines for raster to vector conversion

November 1, 2009

If you are drawing an outline that you want to convert to CAD using raster to vector conversion, it needs to be drawn as a single, strong, unambiguous line.

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Mending breaks in raster lines for successful raster to vector conversion

August 29, 2009

One of the images I was emailed this week to do a sample raster to vector conversion on with Scan2CAD was the outline of a spindle, some parts of which were very broken up.

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