Turn your drawings into cutting files!
Raster to Vector conversion for all of your Cutting and Engraving applications
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Draftsman Cutting Shop converts raster images (scanned drawings) into very high quality vector files that your machine can read and interpret.
SCAN and CUT... or TYPE and CUT
Draftsman Cutting Shop
is the premier 32 bit raster to vector conversion program for all cutting
applications. The program imports color, gray and black and white images.
Cutting Shop is simple to install, easy to use and extremely fast.
Scans of both sketches and silhouettes are quickly converted into high
quality, ready to cut, vector drawings. If you are a sign maker, have a
water jet or laser cutter, are engraving or dealing with G codes you have found the
right product.
Any TrueType font is instantly outlined with long lines and arcs. Whether it is a vectorized drawing or an outlined font, complex curves are made of a series of end to end arcs and outlines are closed polygons. Images converted with Cutting Shop cut smooth and the cutting tool stays down until the outline is finished; optimizing your cutting operation.
PREPARATION
Cutting Shop has many features
designed specifically for NC applications such as line offset, cuttable
fills, automatic and manual tool path sorting, show direction of cut and
if required, reverse it. Also, Import DXF files from low end raster
to vector programs and automatically create long lines and arcs from the
thousands of short vectors that these programs can create.
New and Improved Features:
Vectorization - Several types of color separation are supported.
Color images of pure colors are instantly outlined. For example, a 6-color logo designed with a paint program can be imported with the edge of each filled area automatically displayed. Where two colors share a common intersection one line is displayed. Colors can also be deselected.
Individual colors from complex color images can also be manually selected for vectorization. In addition, you can threshold gray scale or color images so that the resulting black and white image is vectorized.
Text - We’ve
got big improvements here!
The entire user interface has been upgraded. TrueType text can now be placed on an arc or series of arcs. This feature includes right and left justifications. Vector outlining of the text is also easier and faster. Text boxes are a thing of the past and text zooms without changing size or placement.Bridge Tool - Two parallel lines bridge the distance between two original lines.
This is an invaluable feature when cutting parts to keep island areas from falling out. The bridge width is user settable.Edit - Set or edit the cutting order.
Display the cutting order, then if required modify it quickly; cut selected line first, last, or somewhere in-between.File - Multiple open document support!
Cutting Shop supports multiple images so that several drawings may be worked on at the same time; vector entities can be copied from one drawing to another.Simple Nesting Option - Cut multiple copies of an object from a single sheet of material.
Simple Nesting quickly fills a sheet of material with copies of parts to be cut. (There is an additional charge for this feature.)
EDIT
Because Cutting Shop is a hybrid
raster/vector program and because clean-up is always a concern, Cutting
Shop comes with an impressive variety of vector and raster editing functions;
stretch, scale, move, copy, delete, insert and join - about 40 of these
tools are available.
EXPORT
Vectors are exported to DXF, PLT,
IGES and other CAD and CAM specific formats. Vectors, raster, or
the combined raster and vector hybrid image can be saved or printed.
Vectors can be drawn on the raster image and the combined raster/vector
drawing can be saved back as a raster drawing.
SIMPLE NESTING OPTION
Simple Nesting quickly fills a
sheet of material with copies of parts to be cut. (There is an additional
charge for this feature.)
Raster to Vector Conversion
•
Convert All or Selection to Vectors
• Color and Gray Support
• Silhouette Conversion
• Sketch Conversion
• Preset and User Definable Conversion Parameters
• Long Lines and Arcs
Fonts
• Silhouette any TrueType font
• Type on an arc or series or arcs
NC Preparation
• S-Fill, Hatch Fill
• Bridge Tool
• Automatic Tool Path Optimization
• Manual Tool Path Sort
• Change Direction of Cut
Heads-Up Digitizing
• Snap to Raster
• Snap to Vector
• Raster Editing
• Vector to Raster Conversion
• Trace with Lines, Circles, Arcs, Text and polygons.
Raster Editing
• Vector to Raster Conversion
• Box and Polygon Erase
• Pixel Editing
• Hole Filling
• Raster Grid
• Despeckle
• Copy
Raster files imported &exported:
• PCX • BMP • Tif Group 4
• Tif Uncompressed • Tif Pack Bits
• RLC • CALS Group 4 • JPG
Vector files exported
• DXF • PLT • IGES • DXB
• CGM • HPG • TXT • 2D
Printing
• Raster, Vector and Hybrid Printing