Scanning Autocad Drawings

[Ian A. White]

On Tue, 21 Oct 1997 18:43:41 +0100, "Chris D"
<chris....@lineone.net> wrote:

>Anyone know if it is possible (or any company which can do it, pref UK) =
to
>scan an a1 size autocad drawing from film paper, and save it in a form
>autocad will understand, so it can be re-arranged and reprinted. We have=
no
>copy of the drawing on disk.=20

Scanning of drawings is relatively straightforward. Converting the
scanned image to vector format is another thing altogether. Yes,
there are programs that can get the majority of things right, however
this does not consider things like paper shrinkage, and the accuracy
with which the drawing was originally prepared. If the drawings are
dimensioned, you will find it easier and more reliable to redraw them
in AutoCAD or anything else for that matter.

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Regards,

Ian A. White, CPEng
WAI Engineering
Sydney 2000
Australia

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[Daniel C. Gassmann]

Ian, I agree with you 100 %. I recently had a drawings of building
floor plans (2 floors, hand drawn) scanned and the scanned images
turned out to be 4'-0" longer than the original. It only took a day
to redraw the both floors plan in cad.