On Friday 18 April 2008 12:36, Andrew Errington wrote: > On Fri, April 18, 2008 06:15, Volker Kuhlmann wrote: > > On Fri 18 Apr 2008 00:34:28 NZST +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote: > >> Many more using Google "gpl free raster to vector" > > > > Having the schematic in vector format is one thing. Do you also want it > > in a format suitable for a schematic editor? That's probably a no-hoper. > > Might not be quite so bad. KiCad (for example) is a free, open-source > schematic capture and PCB layout tool. I'm not sure of the documentation > for the schematic file format, but here's something: > > http://stawoo.com/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=ecld:kicad:schematic > > The tricky part would be getting the raster-to-vector software to > recognise the difference between a bunch of lines joining the nodes and > the lines that make up a component symbol.
When the jgp is describing a 3d part, it gets hairy ... real hairy. > > IMHO it would be easier to print the original JPG and use KiCad to draw > the schematic again from scratch. All I need, since the jpgs I'm talking about describe boats' lines, is to get the CAD I decide to use, to place the lines along the defined axes at the defined points - eg, one set of lines I'm playing with, the Spray, has its waterline and station points at 6 inch to 2 foot distances. It's impossible with the minimal amount of information a jpg file stores, to derive that from the jpg file itself - I would need to add it using the CAD program itself. What i want is to be able to turn the jpg into a set of lines in a CAD file that I can take and use as necessary. But thanks Wesley Parish > > A -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish ----- Gaul is quartered into three halves. Things which are impossible are equal to each other. Guerrilla warfare means up to their monkey tricks. Extracts from "Schoolboy Howlers" - the collective wisdom of the foolish. ----- Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
