[geeks] CAD and wireframes Was:This would make a good workstation

[Michael Schiller]

On Wednesday, March 5, 2003, at 12:22 AM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:

>> I'm just asking now out of curiosity, as I'm no longer involved with
>> that company, but I did work there for 20 years, so I'm kind of still
>> interested.
>
> The only way I know of to do this is to slap the drawing on a digitizer
> and trace it.  But if you were careful, you could get a pretty exact 
> copy.
>
> Peace...  Sridhar

That's the answer I got years ago when I was looking into this. Oh well.

But now the question is why can they scan text documents, and make a 
non bitmapped file (a text file) out of it, but can't do the same with 
a mechanical drawing? I would think the technology is good enough to do 
this. Is there really such a little demand for an app like this?

-Mike
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