Free Scan2CAD Raster Editor Offered

By DE Editors

Softcover International (Cambridge, UK; softcover.com)has decided to offer the raster editing and drawing tools of itslow-cost professional raster-to-vector converter, Scan2CAD, free ofcharge to any PC CAD user who needs to clean up dirty scanned drawings.The free editor can be downloaded with a working evaluation copy ofScan2CAD v7 from at softcover.com

Version 7 automatically converts scanned paper drawings (rasters) intoeditable DXF (vector) files for editing in any CAD program. Tidying upa dirty scan is an essential part of this process. The Scan2CADevaluation program is a fully working raster editor with norestrictions on loading, editing, or saving cleaned raster files, andwill open any size scanned paper drawing saved in a variety of popularraster file formats, like BMP (bitmap), TIFF, CAL, PNG, JPG, or GIF.

The imported raster file can be color, gray scale, or black and white,and the automatic or manual color reduction tools will reduce scansfrom millions of colors to a more CAD-practical 256 colors (the AutoCADmaximum) or less, typically 8 or 16 colors. Among the supplied rasterediting features are tools to rotate by degrees, rotate by line, removespeckles, remove holes, thin-thicken lines, thicken pixels, outline,and warp. The raster editing tools allow the user to cut, copy, move,and paste parts of the drawing, as well as to crop and mirror theraster image. The CAD user can also draw and edit raster lines,rectangles, circles, arcs, points, Bezier curves, and solid filledareas, and more.

Comprehensive information on raster to vector conversion in general and Scan2CADin particular can be found at softcover.com.