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

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@yahoogroups.com, Alan Rothenbush <beer@...>
wrote:

>
> Lacking drawings or dimensions for _anything_, the final shape

will be

> determined ad hoc.
>
> However, the initial shape (in plan view) and the location of

three key

> mounting holes _is_ predictable, and it would be nice to CNC this

initial

> shape.
>
> I see taking a pic from straight above, feeding it into a CAD

program and

> then tracing the outline.
>
> 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.

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