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Gerald

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Sep 19, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/19/97
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please help me because i am in a fix. my boss wants me to get
a program that can convert raster especially gif or pcx to
autocad dxf. if i get the wrong program and waste his money i am dead.
can anyone recommend a program.

Irina

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Sep 20, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/20/97
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Hi, I'm Jason
I was looking over my girlfriend's shoulder and she said I should jump in
to help here.

A couple of years ago this was quite a secret, but now almost any of the
tracing programs are fairly good at reading lines and arcs from bitmaps
into vectors.

You can find most of them as part of the software provided with a typical
scanner (part of the OCR bundle). However, missing that, you can use Corel
Draw 6 (or even the old Corel Draw 3). There is a feature for tracing
bitmaps into vector formats, which Corel can export to DXF. If you're
using Autocad under Windows, you can even copy the converted vector to the
clipboard and paste it into autocad directly.

Don't fear, if the software is recent, it works fairly well. However, be
prepaired - many times what looks like a straight line will be imported as
a series of tiny entities. There's often a threshold value to set for this,
but still it won't be nearly as clean a drawing as you would do just
tracing over the bitmap (from importing it into autocad).


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Norbert Grund

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Sep 21, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/21/97
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On Fri, 19 Sep 1997 20:48:54 +0800, Gerald <whea...@pacific.net.sg>
wrote:

>please help me because i am in a fix. my boss wants me to get
>a program that can convert raster especially gif or pcx to
>autocad dxf. if i get the wrong program and waste his money i am dead.
>can anyone recommend a program.

Corel Trace (enclosed in Corel Draw)
Adobe StreamLine 4.0 (Trial version at www.adobe.com)
GeoScan (don't now source, search the web)

Norbert
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Hasta la Vista, Blade.

Claus Hanelt

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Sep 22, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/22/97
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Gerald wrote:
>
> please help me because i am in a fix. my boss wants me to get
> a program that can convert raster especially gif or pcx to
> autocad dxf. if i get the wrong program and waste his money i am dead.
> can anyone recommend a program.

Hi Gerald,
the most powerfull software I know is RastreX.

http://www.expertg.com/products/function.html#edit

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Claus Hanelt
lcs
latschenberger cad-service
Germany

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Sep 26, 1997, 3:00:00 AM9/26/97
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In article <342274...@pacific.net.sg>, whea...@pacific.net.sg wrote:
>please help me because i am in a fix. my boss wants me to get
>a program that can convert raster especially gif or pcx to
>autocad dxf. if i get the wrong program and waste his money i am dead.
>can anyone recommend a program.

VPmax95
VPmaxNT
try http://www.vpmax.com

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