DIY Cheap 3D Scanner

Thursday, August 27th, 2009 Posted in 3D, cad, diy, hardware | Comments Off

There is lot's of different cheap design for building your own 3D scanner, here are a few: SCAN Z do-it-yourself 3D scanner Building a Homemade Laser Line Scanner (CS6998, Spring '01) Build ... Read more..

Convert Picture/Image to DXF

Thursday, July 30th, 2009 Posted in cad, gimp, pictures | Comments Off

First, do edge detection using GIMP (or any other image editing program) Then, convert to SVG using Inkscape (File - Import, then Path - Trace Bitmap) Save as a DXF Fix DXF in ... Read more..

Autocad: PDF plot drawing’s text as text w/ PDFCreator

Wednesday, August 6th, 2008 Posted in cad, windows | Comments Off

Autocad plot pdf text as text with PDFCreator (instead of images of text): File - Page Setup Manager - Manage Page Setups - Page Setup Manager - Modify - Printer/Plotter, PDFCreator.pc3, ... Read more..

AutoCAD: Publishing (Batch plot) to single-sheet PDFs

Tuesday, May 20th, 2008 Posted in cad | Comments Off

How to have AutoCAD publish to multiple PDF files instead of one PDF file with multiple pages: The following variables need to be set to "0": PUBLISHCOLLATE = 0 BACKGROUNDPLOT = 0 In Sheet Set ... Read more..