GTXRaster CAD Series
Intelligent Paper to CAD Solutions

Increase productivity in your engineering and design process by working with legacy paper drawings in your AutoCAD environment. A very cost-effective, yet powerful and easy-to-use solution providing entry-level raster editing, cleanup and enhancement of scanned engineering drawings.

Improve your current design process by maximizing the use of your legacy paper drawings. GTXRaster CAD adds complete raster editing and manipulation capabilities on top of the raster cleanup capability of GTXRaster Tools, all in your AutoCAD environment.

Full support for AutoCAD ® DWG compatibility (all current versions of AutoCAD are supported - please contact us for more information on previous versions of AutoCAD) ensures compliance with today's standards. With an improved online help, getting up and running is faster than ever.

The industry-acclaimed "AutoCAD for Raster" gives the user CAD-like functionality with "Intelligent Object Picking". AutoCAD users can modify and enhance scanned raster images with the ease and speed of CAD.

Drawing Management

• Multiple drawing environment
• Quick save of vector objects into the current drawing
• Create new raster image
• Convert vector objects to raster data for saving

• Interactive despeckling
• Change the size, position, or scale of the drawing.
• Auto deskew and crop for scanning misalignment.
• Smooth images to improve legibility and reduce storage
• Correct distortion on warped images

• Select raster elements while preserving the integrity of intersecting raster geometry.
• Pick touching text
• 20 raster selection methods (IOP) and 7 raster snap modes to ensure precise editing
• Cut and Paste blocks of data between drawings with the full control of AutoCAD.
• True Hybrid Snapping
• Drawing registration

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The GTXRaster CAD PLUS product adds raster to CAD conversion. Convert scanned drawings directly into an AutoCAD dwg. Recognition of arcs, circles, ASCII text, lines, edge boundaries, and contour polylines reduces redraw time dramatically. It contains all the features of GTXRaster CAD and the following:

Geometry Recognition

• Selective or full conversion
• Dashed arc and true arc/circle recognition
• Boundary edge tracing
• Polyline smoothing
• Intersection clean up
• Assigns Z axis to contour elevation.
• Ortho and angle snap
• Accurately recognizes splines, arrowhead and cross-hatching.

• Line deskew, relimit and join
• Circle concentric and alike functions
• Layer control

• Font, size, and orientation independent
• Trainable and editable character sets.
• Accurate text conversion including touching character and context recognition, and template matching.
• Word dictionary look up

• Automatic vectorization of raster files
• Full range of raster formats
• DXF, IGES, CGM and MTF output
• Smoothness and rectification options

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Enhance your AutoCAD imaging environment with the efficient raster cleanup tools, powerful batch raster to vector conversion technology, advanced text recognition and geometry conversion from raster to AutoCAD objects. If you already have a raster editor, GTXRaster R2V provides an add-on solution with the combined raster cleanup features of GTXRaster Tools and raster to CAD conversion of GTXRaster CAD PLUS, compatible with raster editors such as Autodesk Raster Design.

Raster to Vector Conversion

Quickly and automatically converts all or selected raster geometry from scanned images into intelligent entities such as lines, arcs, circles, polylines and true AutoCAD text.

Text Recognition & Conversion

Even hand-written text can easily be converted into ASCII characters. This ICR (Intelligent Character Recognition) technology recognizes touching text, provides a lookup dictionary and provides pattern matching to ensure accurate conversion.

Outline Recognition

Boundaries of selected raster objects are easily recognized, including technical illustrations, logos and solid areas.

Ease of Use

GTXRaster R2V is fully integrated with AutoCAD's Image Support Module (ISM). All GTX menus, commands and toolbars are consistent with the AutoCAD environment, providing a very productive and easy-to-learn user interface for both new and expert AutoCAD users.

Geometry Recognition

• Selective or Full Conversion
• Segmented Curve Recognition
• True Arc/Circle Recognition
• Boundary/Edge Tracing
• Intersection Clean-Up
• Ortho and Angle Snap
• Contour/Polyline Recognition
• Z-Value (Elevation) Option
• Polyline Smoothing
• Edge Recognition and Dashed Line Alignment
• Batch Conversion Capability (optional)

Character Recognition

Expanded training files that are size independent, font independent and orientation independent. Dictionary lookup, template matching, touching text recognition ensure successful text conversion.

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