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I was wondering if there is anyway I could scan an old drawing and place it into datacad v10 to edit

I would think your best bet would be to use a service like this. http://www.formatconversion.com/?source ... ans_to_cad
I have not had to use this before. Let me know if it works.

thank you but i am trying to do it for free and i would like it today not in like 4 days i think they said. but thank you

For free and today, oh if everything was that easy

Hi,
When you scan a dwg, it becomes a sort of bitmap. Easiest is to trace over it.
You can also try a software called "Wintopo" and it is free!!! It has a trace function. I tried it before...works but will take you a while to clean it up.

My best suggestion is to just import as a bitmap in D11 then trace over it.

Hello:

The trick is to be able to scan it in the first place -- how big is the drawing, and how big is your scanner? After you get it as an image, then tracing it in DataCAD is the best way to go.

If it is too big to scan, or it is too complicated to trace easily -- then the 4 days and the couple of C-notes are going to look cheap!

[Edit: As Miguel says below, if you can get it scanned by a service, this can often just be $10-20 and well worth it!]

Hello Wolfgang,

I've done some experiences along with this scanning. If you only want to scan, and receive it in raster image it is NOT so expensive, but if you would want to vectorize it. It is really expensive and too slow.

In general it is too much expensive and helps just less then you would like to.

The lines never are in the right place, dimensions and scales would vary a lot from the apropriate.
I had to redo almost everything. Took too long time to get it. I decided never think about this 'solution' anymore.

The only usefulness is to scan raster images and put them as an utilitary background to the drawing sheet, and trace over it, just on only the parts that should contribute for the object.

Hope this helps in some way,
Miguel