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New from Arbor Image:

Draftsman

Raster to Vector Conversion for all Cutting and Engraving Applications

SCREENSHOTS - Click to enlarge (800 x 600)

NEW and IMPROVED Features

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. 

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. 

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 Defineable 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 Editng
• Vector to Raster Conversion
• Trace with Lines, Circles, Arcs, Text and polygons.

Raster Editing
• Vector to Raster Conversion
• Box and Polygon Erase
• Pixed Editing
• Hole Filling
• Raster Grid
• Despeckle
• Copy

Raster files imported &e xported:
• 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

FREE DEMO!
A Free Demo Version of Draftsman Cutting Shop is available. Just go to the Draftsman Draftsman Cutting Shop Demo Version..
 

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