Good morning people,
I need to be able to scan line drawings or solid , high-contrast
shapes,
and quickly/easily turn them into accurate vector files.
I just tried this with an old Corel program (for win 95!) and was
horrified
with the awful lack of faithfulness to the design.
Surely things are better nowadays , and there's a program that will do
what I want,
fast and good?. I am in the business of toolmaking, and people send
me line drawings or metal patterns to make dies from. The point being
that I need to create a toolpath/dxf/vector file
for a wire edm machine to use to cut the design as a hairline
through a piece of steel .
My problem has been the fact that it's slow to create the vector files
from the ground up .
I need to be able to (as much as possible) scan and convert . I do
work for jewelers mostly, so accuracy and precision are a must .
My test shape with Corel was not spiffy clean, but the trace program
turned out a trace that was
off wildly in places , only crudely following the desired shape.
thanks for any help.
Dar
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