GTX is a software that can digitize drawings and convert them into raster vectors
The GTX product from the United States converts paper design drawings into electronic formats and processes them specialized software. GTX Corporation, located in Arizona, USA, is the world leader in drawing processing, especially in mechanical and engineering drawing processing. It uses artificial intelligence technology for raster processing. IOP (Intelligent Object Picking) technology is patented by GTX and is used by many companies in the world. In terms of raster vectorization, GTX breaks through the technical methods used by traditional similar software. The use of artificial intelligence technology greatly improves the accuracy and reliability of vectorization and reduces manual modifications after vectorization.
Although CAD technology has been developed and popularized for more than ten years, according to a statistical report by the American IDC company, there are an estimated 8 billion design drawings in the world, of which only 13 are stored in CAD format. 60 are still on paper. In China, the proportion of design drawings in the form of paper will be higher, especially for some manufacturing plants with a long history, which have basically accumulated drawings for decades. They are the crystallization of corporate knowledge.
Currently, many manufacturing companies in our country have joint ventures or cooperation with famous foreign companies. A large number of drawings will be sent from foreign partners. Due to various reasons, these drawings are often raster files in paper media or tif format. Domestic partners need to edit these drawings, such as adding Chinese annotations, schedules, etc. However, how to edit these files in raster format is a problem faced by these companies.
GTX software can easily edit raster files in tif format. It can not only edit raster graphics, but also convert Chinese, graphics, detailed tables, etc. under AutoCAD into raster graphics and add them to tif format. In the original image, it forms a graphics file with the original image. In this way, GTX software can well solve the problem of processing foreign drawings.
Rich raster editing functions
In terms of raster, GTX’s unique IOP (Intelligent Entity Picking) is currently the most advanced method in the world in the field of raster editing. It can identify raster entities as if Vector entities are the same, so the editing function is particularly simple. In particular, arc vectorization can distinguish drawings in different situations and automatically identify solid or dotted circles and arcs of varying sizes. Other similar software may require the dimensions of circles and arcs to be given in parameter templates, otherwise correct results cannot be obtained. GTX can recognize symbols such as arrows, and post-processing such as the size, size, thickness, and thickness of the arrows can be batch processed or manually modified individually.
Powerful decontamination and smoothing functions
GTX has decontamination, smoothing, disconnection and other functions. In particular, raster smoothing is done particularly well. The system provides the function of measuring stains or broken lines to help adjust parameters for more accurate stain removal. It also supports subdividing layers according to raster coarseness, helping tiny symbols or stains to be processed separately from the overall pixels.
Powerful capture function
In terms of capture, GTX also provides 18 capture methods, including raster to vector and raster to raster. The powerful capture function makes user operation more convenient and accurate.
Raster-vector mixed editing and accurate combination of the two
Raster-vector mixed editing implies the mutual matching of raster files and vector files. Of course, there will be no problem when raster vectors are displayed or drawn simultaneously in the same software. However, if it is handled by a third-party software, such as the browsing software in the engineering drawing file management system, it may not be able to recognize that the two files logically belong to the same drawing. GTX is the most well-known electronic drawing software in the world, so the browsing functions of most engineering drawing file management systems can accurately combine raster-vector mixed drawings. Many other drawing electronic software will encounter problems.
Intelligent recognition of graphics
It can intelligently identify lines, arcs, circles, dimension lines, arrows and other graphics elements, and can also be layered according to line type and line width. The integrity and usability of vectorized results are currently the best in the field.
Unlike the "thinning" method of taking the center line that most other products use, GTX's intelligent results are far ahead in the industry.
Intelligent Character Recognition (Intelligent Character Recognition)
In terms of characters, GTX has the ability of Artificial Intelligence Character Recognition (Intelligent Character Recognition). Users can train the system to recognize certain character shapes. , even for handwriting, the system can recognize characters very accurately after learning, and the recognition processing of character intersections and broken pens still has a certain degree of accuracy.
*Batch processing fully automatic vectorization and human-computer interactive vectorization
If human-computer interactive vectorization is used, GTX will display the picked pixels in other colors first out, the user can pick out the parts that do not use vectors and then formally process them. This product is also very powerful in rasterizing vector pixels. (As shown in Figure 5)
* Consistent with AutoCAD
Because the GTXRaster CAD series software is integrated in the AutoCAD environment, all commands, menus and toolbars are consistent with AutoCAD , the user interface is easy to understand and use, especially for AutoCAD users, it is very easy to master and operate. GTX Corporation has opened up a large number of command raster operations and processing commands, making it very easy and efficient to operate raster graphics.
Similar comparison
Due to its advanced technology, compared with similar software, GTX vectorizes the same image and takes up much less space
The IOP (Intelligent Object Picking) artificial intelligence technology adopted by GTX greatly improves the accuracy and reliability of vectorization
The drawing design process uses drawings and AutoCAD in parallel, and GTXRaster CAD PLUS is the most cost-effective The tool of choice for embedding these valuable drawing assets into the CAD design environment
All commands, menus, and toolbars are seamlessly integrated with AutoCAD, providing an efficient, easy-to-learn and easy-to-use user interface
Fast and flexible raster and vector editing technology makes scanned raster files easier to modify and more valuable
The dynamic and flexible modular architecture provides technical guarantee for smooth upgrades to meet the growing needs of users
Using GTX professional drawing processing software will improve drawing design productivity and quickly return investment. The development and popularization of CAD technology has been going on for more than ten years. However, according to the statistical report of the American IDC company, there are an estimated 80 people worldwide. Of the 100 million design drawings, only 13% are stored in CAD format, and 60% are still on paper.
Today, with the rapid development of informatization, in order to manage and utilize resources more efficiently and achieve efficient production of products, the electronic drawing has become an indispensable part of an excellent enterprise. Many companies have adopted electronic document management methods to replace traditional methods. How to keep, store and manage a large number of drawings and how to share this information with more people is a big problem faced by many companies today. There are two storage formats for electronic drawings, raster format and vector format.
Raster format: On a computer monitor, a picture is just a bunch of pixels colored in different colors. Some graphics file formats actually record pictures in the form of pixels. These are raster pictures and can only be edited by changing the pixels directly using bitmap editing software.
Vector format: Vector graphics files are descriptive records of geometric shapes. These shapes are converted into bitmaps and displayed on the monitor. Vector graphics are easy to modify and manipulate because its components can be individually moved, resized, rotated or deleted.
The vector format is an intelligent format that can be edited and utilized efficiently and has very high value. Raster format is a non-intelligent format and is not conducive to efficient editing and utilization by enterprises.
Based on the frequency of reuse of drawings, our experts have analyzed and found that raster editing, raster-vector mixed editing, and conversion to vector drawings are the most efficient and ideal ways to process them. GTXRaster CAD series software consists of four functional modules:
* GTXRaster Tools: It is a tool to enhance the graphic quality of scanned images, including cleaning, calibration, smoothing and other raster operation tools that are easy to use. It is a powerful tool for preliminary layout cleaning of scanned images. It operates raster graphics in the AutoCAD environment to improve design efficiency.
* GTXRaster CAD: AutoCAD, known as raster in the industry, is the most efficient raster processing and editing software. Especially for AutoCAD users, using it, you can directly process and edit raster images under AutoCAD. Edit and integrate into current design work. It includes the functionality of GTXRaster Tools.
* GTXRaster R2V: Suitable for conversion requirements from raster to appropriate volume, and mainly focuses on vectorization functions, and includes the functions of GTXRaster Tools. In the AutoCAD environment, it provides effective raster cleaning tools, raster graphics into AutoCAD entities and text recognition functions.
* GTXRaster CAD PLUS: Contains all the functions of GTXRaster CAD, and adds automatic conversion (vectorization) function from raster to vector, powerful batch vectorization function and advanced intelligent text recognition function. It is fully functional software and includes all the modules mentioned above. * Raster modification technology
The latest generation technology of GTX series products is Intelligent Object Picking (IOP-Intelligent Object Picking) invented and patented by GTX Company. Make non-intelligent raster pixels intelligent and process them like CAD pixels. With IOP, the ability to modify rasters is greatly increased, and users do not necessarily need to invest a lot of manpower and money to vectorize drawings. (As shown in Figure 6)
Let’s examine other raster modification technologies, such as a technology called Paintbrush, which swaps black and white pixels of the image, or copies, cuts and pastes, etc. This method can only solve some minor problems simply. In the case of overlapping pixels (as shown in Figure 7), the geometric structure of the graph will be destroyed, and a lot of effort will be spent.
After this method was launched on the market, it was found that it could not solve the fundamental problem. Some CAD manufacturers combined CAD technology with Paintbrush technology, using Paintbrush technology to paint out the pixels and then using CAD technology to break them. This method is more effective and more efficient than the Paintrush method alone, but it will still destroy the geometric structure of the image when dealing with misaligned pixels. (As shown in Figure 7)
*Vectorization technology
GTX uses intelligent identification means to vectorize, instead of taking the center line like most products, vectoring along the center line It is easy to convert a complete line segment or circle into several line segments or arcs. In this regard, GTX's products are particularly superior because of IOP technology. The GTX automatic vectorization method automatically converts raster images into CAD entities and optimizes the process of raster entity recognition based on predetermined rules. The completion time generally only takes a few minutes for A1 drawings.
Let’s look at other vectorization techniques, such as: some use the center line, some use the peripheral line, and some combine the center line and the peripheral line in parallel.
The following is a comparison of some examples:
General software vectorization
Figure 8 is the result of GTX vectorization. You can see the intelligence from Figure 10 Insufficient vector technology (center line method) cannot recognize basic graphics elements such as lines, circles, arcs, etc., and it is more difficult to maintain the geometric structure of the drawing.
* Raster-vector mixed editing technology
This strategy is to locally select a certain part of the raster image for cleaning and vectorization.
The selected part is converted into a CAD entity through human-machine dialogue, and the drawings are processed by integrating the CAD operator's skills and automatic vectorization technology. The patented technology of GTXRaster software - using artificial intelligence technology to identify and process raster bodies, has brought good news to the majority of users who are troubled by scanned images and foreign images.