Hi,
There are apps that can take a scanned image and convert it into curves that
you can use in CAD, but they usually do kind of a rough job, and it's just
as easy to import the bitmap into your CAD program to use as a tracing
template.
Jim
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James Carruthers
Hydraulic Design
613-851-9270
http://www.hydraulicdesign.net
mailto:jim@hydraulicdesign.net
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi [mailto:owner-rp-ml@bart.lpt.fi]On Behalf
> Of Neil Hopkinson
> Sent: Thursday, March 02, 2000 8:08 AM
> To: RP Mailing List (E-mail)
> Subject: 2D manipulation
>
>
> Just a quick question.
> I have a 2D image (free hand drawing) which I would like to represent in
> CAD, extrude into a third dimension and represent in .stl format. Can I
> scan it and import a bitmap or similar into a CAD package? Are
> there other
> ways of doing what I want?
>
> Neil Hopkinson
>
>
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