Contracting Agency: U.S. Army
Point of Contact: solutions@kbsi.com

Overview

This project investigated and demonstrated the conversion of CALS Type I raster mechanical drawings to parametric vector format, and to parametric 3D solid models by leveraging KBSI’s "Vector to 3D" (3VD) technology. Raster drawings consume storage space and network bandwidth, have a finite resolution, often suffer from poor image quality, and are expensive to maintain and edit. These limitations impact electronic commerce, competitive reprocurement, and maintenance.

None of the many raster-to-vector conversion products currently available produces parametric vector drawings (PVDs). In PVDs, the text and symbols are bi-directionally associated with the drawing’s geometry, so a change to a dimension will cause a change to the geometry of the drawing. Conversely, in a vector drawing, a change to a dimension will have no effect on the geometry.