When the ART module is loaded from the VisualCAM menu, the ART browser window will be displayed. If you are using the default factory settings, this browser window will be docked to the left hand side of the VisualCAD product as shown above.
This browser consists of a tabbed toolbar located on top which has two tabs. These tabs are:
1.Relief Operations (ROps) tab
2.Raster to Vector tab
The Relief Operations tab is used for 3D geometry using various operations such as creating reliefs, sweep and puff operations. In the Raster to Vector tab, raster images can be converted in to a vector (Curves).
ART allows you to create multiple relief operations in a part file. This feature is the one that allows you to create the entire sequence of relief operations that are necessary to create the part model. This set of operations can additionally be archived to a disk file and retrieved at a later time with no loss of information. The Browser shown below allows you to manage this list of relief operations.
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Selecting the Raster to Vector tab in the ART Browser shows 2 functions that provide the functionality to create curves from images and export the curves to CAD.
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