Re: [CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO] Duplicating (mostly) a real part - which CAD program ?

Alan Rothenbush wrote:

> However, I do not know of a (free or low cost) CAD program that allows me
> to put a picture down as background and trace around it on another layer,
> creating a DXF out of this layer.
>
> Any thoughts ?

http://www.inkscape.org
I've not worked out just what it can do in the way of controlling
'size', but it does have a very good trace tool
http://inkscape.org/doc/tracing/tutorial-tracing.html
and will output to lots of things including DXF

The interesting thing from my point of view - it's free and runs on both
Windows AND Linux

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