JoeRees
New Member
I need a way to vectorize large paper tracings in a 1:1 scale so that when I plot them out they match the original hand-tracing very closely. I'm talking about originals that are up to 3' x 4'. I'm thinking that a large digitizer tablet or oversized flatbed scanner would be a good tool for the job but who has these anymore? I can attest that trying to draw over a photo of the original with CorelDRAW's freehand tool is not practical because of inherent distortions in a cellphone pic - no matter how perfectly you follow the pic the resulting vector paths never really matches the original tracing, resulting in a seemingly endless spiral of editing and re-plotting to check improvements...I eventually get there but holy-moley what a clunky and wasteful process. Wasteful because I don't have a pen-drawing plotter and must cut vinyl for each test plot. There's got to be a better way. How would you handle a task like this or do you know of a service who can scan my patterns full scale?
Thanks,
-Joe-
Thanks,
-Joe-
