Scan stuff into Cad? - Tilted Forum Project Discussion Community

Smackre · 08-14-2003, 04:55 PM

I got a shapening shop and we have alot of customers who send in Wood samples they send in and want custom router bits made up. Drawing up this kind of stuff is kinda a pain when u gotta draw up 10 of them in 8 hours. You gotta sit there with radius guages and calipers and measure everthing. I can never get all that is needed Done so i want a new way.

A friend of mine has a scaner. So he let me borrow it and i took a few Samples home. Took a pensil and trased around the sample and scaned it saved it as a wmf file cuz i knew autocad would import it. Get into autocad and bring it in. Its off scale like a mile so it takes a few mins 2 get it on size. Then the lines on the scan are so big when put in Cad it makes 2 diffrent lines close 2 geter. And nothing is close 2 strait.

I did this for about a year and want a new way that brings the drawing in a little better quality. lemme know if anyone knows a way or even a idea of a way.

tks )

Fallen · 08-14-2003, 05:28 PM

I don't believe there is an easier way unless you actually digitize the object and use a solid modeling program such as Solidworks.

I could be wrong, but I've been and engineer/machinist for years and I've never heard of a solution to your problem.

This board constantly surprises me though, somebody just might come up with something.

charliex · 08-15-2003, 11:08 PM

Scan the image as a high res black and white image, then run a few of the filters on it . maybe an edge detection, then run a bmp to vector program on it (maybe one of the shockwave/flash making programs ), tidy it up and load it into autocad..

scaling the vectors down and up will get it to snap lines a little more.

It'll take time to get a process down, but i bet you could get it down pretty close., without a really expensive 3d scanner.

A digicam and lots of light might work better since you can make a rig thats fixed and slot the wood in, make it a straighter source.

Smackre · 08-16-2003, 04:38 PM

what should i use 2 run the filters and edge detection? and what are the filters called? )

charliex · 08-17-2003, 07:12 PM

edge detection filters, there should be strong and weak ones
maybe a sobell.
look under photoshops / filters section if you have it

08-14-2003, 04:55 PM	#1 (permalink)
Smackre Addict	Scan stuff into Cad? I got a shapening shop and we have alot of customers who send in Wood samples they send in and want custom router bits made up. Drawing up this kind of stuff is kinda a pain when u gotta draw up 10 of them in 8 hours. You gotta sit there with radius guages and calipers and measure everthing. I can never get all that is needed Done so i want a new way. A friend of mine has a scaner. So he let me borrow it and i took a few Samples home. Took a pensil and trased around the sample and scaned it saved it as a wmf file cuz i knew autocad would import it. Get into autocad and bring it in. Its off scale like a mile so it takes a few mins 2 get it on size. Then the lines on the scan are so big when put in Cad it makes 2 diffrent lines close 2 geter. And nothing is close 2 strait. I did this for about a year and want a new way that brings the drawing in a little better quality. lemme know if anyone knows a way or even a idea of a way. tks )

08-14-2003, 05:28 PM	#2 (permalink)
Fallen Crazy Location: Adrift In Madness	I don't believe there is an easier way unless you actually digitize the object and use a solid modeling program such as Solidworks. I could be wrong, but I've been and engineer/machinist for years and I've never heard of a solution to your problem. This board constantly surprises me though, somebody just might come up with something. __________________ Overdosed on Apathy

08-15-2003, 11:08 PM	#3 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	Scan the image as a high res black and white image, then run a few of the filters on it . maybe an edge detection, then run a bmp to vector program on it (maybe one of the shockwave/flash making programs ), tidy it up and load it into autocad.. scaling the vectors down and up will get it to snap lines a little more. It'll take time to get a process down, but i bet you could get it down pretty close., without a really expensive 3d scanner. A digicam and lots of light might work better since you can make a rig thats fixed and slot the wood in, make it a straighter source.

08-16-2003, 04:38 PM	#4 (permalink)
Smackre Addict	what should i use 2 run the filters and edge detection? and what are the filters called? )

08-17-2003, 07:12 PM	#5 (permalink)
charliex Junkie Location: North Hollywood	edge detection filters, there should be strong and weak ones maybe a sobell. look under photoshops / filters section if you have it