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    huge drawing board test

    I am having quite the time running a jumbo board tracing out large parts,parts can now be full size and digitized and amazing how the board joint disappears, i would like to trace out a wing profile from an aircraft

    John walsh was telling me that he has clients using his jumbo board in the boat business(doing actual size template copying) and counter top specialist (templates to get the perfect fit)
    Once you have that template no matter how big it can be easilt traced out to a vector and once you have the file its machine ready for a cut
    Also this is all done with a cordless pen

    https://youtu.be/9AhbY4JAzJw
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    Wouldn't you want precision cad drawing and not a hand trace of a wing for an airplane? Ill take math over art for that part. Hand draw the stencil for the logo/graphic on the plane Stan LOL.
    Glad its my shop I am responsible for - I only have to make me happy.

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    I wanted something large to trace out and a wing profile came to my mind,everyhting in my shop is 4-5 feet this borad is 11 foot
    just would like to see how it fairs out

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    Stan, That's a serious large digitizer, definitely makes the little 30"x 36" GTCO Rollup II I just acquired look small. Now I just have to get this thing working with one of my CAD programs to trace in shapes!

    gerald

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    Stan,

    This is not mine and it is with the older version of Rhinoceros but don't see how it can get much simpler. Most any of the newer serious Cad programs can do this....... CorelDraw has an autotrace feature that works fairly well and you can convert to a dwg/dxf file etc.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=40&v=NHOeFYMG6rw

    We do this all the time with parts, pieces, even houses, maps etc......... You don't need anything but the software and a scanner, camera, or file for the computer to use to be able to trace objects with a function of the program. Rhino will snap to the JPG if you want it to do so. Scale/Size is irrelevant

    Blessings,

    Kevin

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    jumbo boards

    I hear what you are saying and i also have scanned ,photo'd etc but i find this tracing software simple and quick.Some of the cad prgs are difficult
    to work unless you are at it a lot.
    This drawing board software just requires a hand and a pen = dxf file
    John walsh has customers asking for hugh boards to do full size patterns,boat builders,counter top people and plasma operators
    It is amazing what he has done to join these boards there is no joint!
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