ScanPro

[LG24]

Hello,

 

I have recently started trying a software (ScanPro) that can create .dwg files from picture files. However, after spending a couple hours testing it, I appear to be still unable to get something that would satisfy me.

I haven't found any popular or active forum for ScanPro, but I guess I have a chance to find someone here who knows it and could help me a bit.

(The software is ScanPro from Upperspace Corporation, version 5.0)

 

In brief :

Once I've scanned a plan, opened the picture file with ScanPro, and converted it into a .dwg file, I can not get any proper lines, even after testing a lot of different parameters. The symbols and the big lines from the picture become a bunch of separated small (curved) lines on the .dwg file. I'd rather draw it all myself then.

 

 

Thanks !

~ LG

[eldon]

That seems to be the problem with these programmes. How to decide which black pixel joins with which black pixel.

 

Most people decide that it is easier to trace over the lines as they see them, rather than to let an artificial intelligence decide where the line is

[Cad64]

You said you're trying to run ScanPro on a picture? By picture do you mean a photograph? I don't think that's going to work very well.

[LG24]

Well, picture or image, I wasn't sure which was the correct English term, sorry

 

Pictures = scanned plans (buildings). Pretty good quality.

[MikeScott]

I've used Wintopo (freeware) with success to take semi-complex scanned images and turn them into CNC paths. It's the best software I've found for this kinda' thing.

[fuccaro]

Myself I used too wintopo a few times. It does a part of the job and it lets you to do the rest. I think this is common for all vectorising software.