Adam Britt Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Is it possible to send in a drawing to a firm and have them (easily) turn it into a CAD file? Would this just be a 2D CAD file, where you have to extrude everything your self, or are their ways to easily have the file be 3D? Quote Link to comment
wezelboy Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Generally, 2D isn't so hard. 3d requires some work. Quote Link to comment
jan15 Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 It's not something that can be done by pressing a button. Someone has to read the paper drawing and create a drawing in a CAD file based on what they see. It's quicker than designing the building from scratch, but it does take time. If they have a large enough scanner (which gets very expensive above legal size) they can create a bitmap image file to use as a background for the CAD file, which mostly just makes viewing the drawing easier. If they also have vectorization software, that can do some of the work of creating vector graphics from the scanned bitmap image. The last time I looked into that, any affordable software was not much help (including the Trace Bitmap command built into Vectorworks). Sketchup has a training video on how to turn a photo of a building into a rough 3D model of it, surprisingly quickly. Quote Link to comment
quigley Posted September 14, 2007 Share Posted September 14, 2007 Alternatively save the scan as a pdf and import the pdf into VW and draw over it and recreate in VW. Quote Link to comment
matto Posted September 15, 2007 Share Posted September 15, 2007 there are many services who can do this for you including technoprint here in australia. Depending on purpose. I'd personnelly go with the scan to a pdf (which agian you can get done by a service such as the one listed) then bring in (or reference in VW2008) to the file and do the tracing yourself. You can also bring the pdf in a mark over in colour for as built drawings that we often require from builders. Quote Link to comment
mralistair Posted September 17, 2007 Share Posted September 17, 2007 if it needs to be a neat, tidy and very accurate cad file then it can be quite stack of work and can be better to re-draw. the automated processes thend to make messy files Quote Link to comment
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