Starting 737 build

[Trevor Hale]

Wow, that's really coming along nicely!

Question about Autocad, if you have a technical drawing of a panel, can that be scanned into the computer and imported to Autocad and converted to that file format to operated the CNC?

Mike,

In AutoCAD a Plot is a Plot is a Plot.. basically a print function, wether it be to a CNC or a bubblejet.  However the scan would not work for the Plot to a CNC because you need to specify what is a cut and what is a transition of the cutter without a cut.  and because the Bitmap is a solid object it cannot reproduce the picture.

It would have to be placed, and then you could make your lines overtop of the image, but alas you would still need to reproduce it by definnng the hills and valleys for lack of a better description.

Trev

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Question about Autocad, if you have a technical drawing of a panel, can that be scanned into the computer and imported to Autocad and converted to that file format to operated the CNC?

I've done something like this a while ago, taken a bitmap and converted it into a dxf file. (Note: I'm still finding my feet with all this stuff, so excuse me if I'm way off) ...

The program I used was called img2CAD and you can get a trial version from http://www.img2cad.com/ (or at least I assume you still can) and as far as I know it's fully functional (it just limits you to converting a maximum of three files at once). I just ran it again now and it certainly created a dxf file from a bmp, although I couldn't tell you what to do with the dxf from there (the initial job it was for required somebody else to take over from me from that point onwards!) ...

NOTE: Always be careful with programs downloaded from the internet and always virus-check them first!! I didn't have any problem with the above program and/or site but I'm still wary of suggesting random websites to people! Please be careful.