August 13, 2003—IDEAL.com, has partnered with Avatech Solutions to bring its entire line of scanning solutions to Avatech’s government, education, and commercial customers. Avatech, a provider of design automation solutions for the manufacturing, building design, and engineering markets, has been granted a US-wide authorization to provide IDEAL/Contex large format scanners and complimentary software as a part of their single-source solutions offerings. The complimentary software includes WiseImage, which brings scanned drawings directly into AutoCAD and provides raster cleanup, CAD-style raster editing, and raster-to-vector conversion. PlanTracer software converts raster floor plans or 2D AutoCAD floor plans into intelligent 3D Autodesk Architectural Desktop objects.
