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Raster

nanoCAD’s Raster Module extends the nanoCAD platform with tools that import, correct, and vectorize raster images.

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What you get

Comprehensive Tool Set of nanoCAD platform

nanoCAD platform provides you with a full set of basic and advanced design tools for creating and editing 2D/3D objects. It offers multiple drawing and editing methods for most geometric elements. nanoCAD platform is the base on which you build a more powerful CAD system to your specifications.

Advanced raster tool set

The Raster Module provides professional-level tools for working with raster images:

  • Automatic vectorization
  • Reduction to 2-bit monochrome and color separation
  • Monochrome filtering
  • Calibration
  • Working with raster files of any type

Key features

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Automatic vectorization

The Raster Module converts raster images into the vector objects by recognizing the following entities: points, lines, arcs, circles, hatches, texts, symbols, and outlines. At the end of the vectorization process, lines, circles, arcs, polylines, and arrowheads are recognized as object types.

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Monochrome filtering

The Raster Module offers a rich variety of monochrome filters, such as smoothing, thinning and thickening, removing speckles, filling holes, generating contours, and inverting images. These not only improve image quality, but also reduce the size of raster files significantly.

  • Define custom hatch patterns in *.pat files
  • Draw fully customized arrays of objects
  • Create and calculate plate arrays
  • Design hole charts
  • Perform advanced calculations using the built-in calculator
  • Carry out static beam calculations
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Correcting image geometry

The Raster Module corrects geometric distortions in raster images, whether monochrome, grayscale, or color:

  • Resizing raster images
  • Scaling images and changing resolutions
  • Cropping
  • Deskewing
  • Mirroring along vertical or horizontal axes
  • Rotating to any angle
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Semi-automatic tracing

The Raster Module vectorizes raster images of any type through tracing. it also smoothes and removes artifacts from monochrome images.

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Rasterization

The Raster Module rasterizes and merges selected vector and raster data onto underlying raster images. The selection can consist of raster images or/and CAD objects.

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Raster image selections

The Raster Module selects the following portions of raster images and transfers them to new raster images on specified layers:

  • Areas of raster images
  • Multiple interconnected raster points
  • Raster lines segments of any shape defined by intersections with other raster lines or by endpoints
  • Raster entities, such as raster lines, arcs and circles