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Re: PS --> Autocad conversions?

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From: Milad Saad <milad>
Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1992 00:15
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In article <1acrvpINNdeh@network.ucsd.edu>, dmb@lyapunov.ucsd.edu (Doug Brownell) writes:
|> I would like to port a PS diagram, in plain vanilla
|> PostScript (no %% comments, single page, etc), to Autocad or
|> some other CAD program, since I am in the process of trying
|> to have it machined into brass.  Can anyone suggest any
|> resources?  The only 'bad' part of the code is the inclusion
|> of fonts; if necessary they can be removed.
|> 
|> Would I be better off just scanning a print of the picture,
|> and forget direct computer-computer translation?  The purist
|> in me disagrees but I'll knuckle under to the inevitable.
|> 
|> Doug Brownell
|> dmb@jacobi.ucsd.edu

-- 
AutoCAD Release 12 has an ADS application that can read in a Postcript file
into AutoCAD drawing. You can also write back the same drawing to a Postscript
file. The commands are PSIN and PSOUT.

I hope this will help

Milad Saad

Design Computing Unit
Department of Architectural and Design Science
Wilkinson Building (G04)                    Tel:    +61-2-692-2053
The University of Sydney                    Fax:    +61-2-692-3031
NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA                          E-mail: milad@archsci.arch.su.oz.au
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