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

Mike Hebel nimitz at speakeasy.net
Tue Mar 4 22:53:41 CST 2003


Michael Schiller wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 4, 2003, at 10:29 PM, vance at neurotica.com wrote:
> At this point in time is there an app that can do this? And even better 
> yet, is there one that can read the drawings, and convert them into a 
> format that can be used by a CNC milling machine? This was another goal 
> I had, I had setup a machine shop to make our parts, and I was looking 
> into getting a CNC mill, a few I saw could read autocad files which got 
> me on the thought of scanning in all the drawings (there were about 1000 
> of them)
> 


IIRC the company name you want is probably Fabravision.(SP?)  It's a 
very expensive E-Sized scanner with software.  I'm not sure of it's 
capabilities but if they can't do it they might know who can.

Mike Hebel


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