December 9, 2002—PlanTracer by Consistent Software, a new product in IDEAL’s family of Scan to CAD products, has received The Editor’s Choice Award from CADENCE Magazine. The Award is given to those companies that the CADENCE editorial team feels constitute significant technology that will help move the CAD industry forward.
IDEAL says that PlanTracer is the first solution on the market for AutoCAD and Architectural Desktop (ADT) that converts floor and building plans into intelligent models automatically and/or semi-automatically. These models are suitable for immediate use in Architecture, Engineering, and Construction (AEC) or FM applications.
PlanTracer enables conversion of simple graphics or source floor plans into objects such as walls, columns, windows, doors, etc. The program can process any 2D floor plan loaded in AutoCAD or ADT. It processes scanned raster drawings or DWG/DXF files.
“Facility managers can scan their paper drawings using an IDEAL/Contex scanner, convert the raster data to vector with the WiseImage plug-in to PlanTracer, and then create a 3-D model.” says Jay Magenheim, President of IDEAL.com. “PlanTracer bridges the gap between an AEC model of a building and vector data provided by any 2D drawing system or by raster-to-vector conversion software.”
For more information contact Kathy Magenheim at 301/468-0123 ext.1230.
