CHE Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 What is the best way to scan to vectors? Does anyone has any tips and tricks that could be of use? Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mbr Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 Adobe has a program called Streamline that traces things, supposed to be good with bw. Never used it, though. It's old, too. Illustrator has the Autotrace function. That's all I am aware of. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Diego Rosales Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 I believe it depends on the type of information you want to vectorize. You could use a raster to vector software (i.e. streamline) for topographic information where there's a certain degree of error than could be acceptable, especially because curves have been already averaged. This should be a one-button solution. For arch. plans, however, it could be better to trace the images in acad, otherwise there could be a lot of cleaning and optimizing vectors that will eventually take the same time as tracing. /Diego Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 I'll be scanning hard copies of drawings in which certain degree of error is acceptable. I'm trying to avoid to trace the images in ACAD. Streamline sounds good, I'll give it a try. Thank you guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigcahunak Posted July 17, 2003 Share Posted July 17, 2003 CHE there are plenty of raster to vector programs out there. Never tried any of them, but I sure do remember running into a few of them (dont remember names or links) If I'm not mistaken Freehand can trace simple raster files and change them to vectors. from there it should be easy to go to DWG through Illustrator format. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CHE Posted July 17, 2003 Author Share Posted July 17, 2003 Bigkahunak, Yes indeed, I found some of those sharewares in CADALOG.com and they worked great!!! Thanks guys. :winkgrin: [ July 17, 2003, 05:31 PM: Message edited by: CHE ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAD Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 Hi Che, Can you tell me what is the actual shareware you got from cadalog.com? I tried to browse the site but theres just too many of them wares. Thanks, cya Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ernest Burden III Posted September 1, 2003 Share Posted September 1, 2003 I'll be scanning hard copies of drawings in which certain degree of error is acceptable. I'm trying to avoid to trace the images in ACAD. Streamline sounds good, I'll give it a try.What sort of drawings? Do you have a lot of them to do? As mentioned, Illustrator has tracing tools. But Streamline is a lot less expensive. V4 is the latest, and I've had it for years. I guess there was no improvement that Adobe felt it needed. They still sell it. Streamline traces line drawings very well, although the result is polylines that are joined in somewhat random ways, so the result will not be a neat CAD file. It will not recognize text, either. It thinks text is just more line art. If your art is architectural drawings, the program can straighten all lines it thinks are 0-180 or 90-270 but of course that could introduce some slight inaccuracy. The output can be .eps or, better yet, .dxf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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