What You Receive
Perfect
CAD Conversions
Everything is recreated just as if you or I
where to have redrawn your drawing by
hand. Lines are lines, arcs are arcs, circles
are circles, and text is text. By default we will use
3-5 layers on most any drawing. Down to the point that an
example might be text will be on a layer called text and it
will be cyan.
The whole point is you should not have to do anything to
our drawings. They had better be just as if you had produced
this same drawing internally.
In addition on quantity project we can use
your own custom CAD defaults. Simply send us a sample
default drawing and/or your drawing specifications
and we can reproduce your work exactly.
All of our work is delivered in native *.dwg
(AutoCAD), *.dgn (MicroStation),
*.shp or *.001 (ArcInfo) and other native CAD files. Depending
upon the CAD system, there should be no importing required.
All work can be received on CD, email, and our secure FTP
site.
Scanning
Communication is the key. We find two
main issues here - 1) Indexing,
how do you find that image in 6 months, 2) scanning quality. Our scanners can
scan 54" wide with ¾" thick media at
2,400 dpi @ 48 bit. But do you really want us to?
Experience comes into play. We have scanned
in excess 1 million large format engineering drawings
over the last several years. It is not uncommon for
to rescan a single sheet 2-8 times just to hand maximize
the image quality of a poor quality drawing.
Before the start of any production scanning project,
we request some of your drawings. That way we can determine
what will work best for you. One size does not fit all.
Once your samples are received we then provide you with
several samples often scanned at 200/300/400 dpi and
bitonal (black and white) vs. grayscale vs. color. In
reality each step up takes about 20-30% longer scanning
time, and produced bigger files - this also makes it
a more expensive product to produce.
Indexing is something that needs to be
understood before the start of any scanning project.
The worst thing that can happen is 6 months after a
scanning project; a user cannot find a drawing. How
do you find it now? What would be nice to add? The rule
of thumb is each index field adds about $.10 to the
cost of each scan. Capturing 3 items from a title block
adds $.30 to the price of a scan. Don't let somebody
talk you into providing you a bulk scan with file names
001.tif, 002.tif, 003.tif, etc. Indexing is so important
to us we have written two products: CAD
/ CAM SERVICES indexing software. This allows
a user to hand index and double verify 1,000 - 100,000
images very quickly. In addition our database
wrap around for a great image viewer - ACDSee allows a simple database to take advantage of the best
of both worlds. This allows you bulk scanning/naming
but allow you to search on the contents of an indexed title block. |
Scanners
CAD / CAM SERVICES is one of the top 3 dealers
of Contex/IDEAL engineering scanners in the entire US. In addition we actually use these products
in our production service bureau. This allows us to have a
unique perspective. What works and what is the most effective
way to scan a piece of paper? How can we best optimize a work
day? What should I really expect my daily throughput to be?
CAD / CAM SERVICES offers onsite,
and extended service contracts on all Ideal scanners. We are
one of only a handful of dealers in the entire US to have
our own factory trained and certified experienced service staff.
We know the little things as to SCSI throughput vs. Firewire in scanners,
how to optimize indexing, and many more. Let our experience
work for you. We use only the highest end, most productive
scanners, best scanning environment we have found.
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