News

Find all the latest news and announcements from Scan2CAD HQ in this section. We’ll discuss all the major steps in our software’s roadmap, alongside any relevant announcements for our product and the company. This section will also cover news items from a variety of topics related to raster to vector conversion, CAD, CNC, additive manufacturing, and other related fields. We’ll also be posting a monthly news roundup, World of CAD, which will cover major announcements from the key players in CAD and its related industries, and will also shine a spotlight on the many creative and innovative uses of CAD software.
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The Problem with PDF Files

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Scan2CAD is a solution for converting your files, of varying formats, to CAD or CNC data. Out of all of the potentially complex file formats we’ve supported over the years, and continue to support, PDF is by-far the biggest pain in the…

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jbig2codec – A Library for Decoding JBIG2 Images

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At Scan2CAD, one of our largest ongoing tasks is to constantly support the ever-increasing raster and vector image formats that any user could come across. PDF files are particularly troublesome because the ‘market’ is full fo thousands of different PDF encoding…

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Sunsetting Scan2CAD’s Legacy Licensing

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From April 01, 2021 we will drop support for a licensing method used by some legacy versions of Scan2CAD (v8 and V9 only). We wanted to explain why we think it’s best to drop support and how we will make the…

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Stay Safe, Stay Productive, Stay Kind

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COVID-19 will affect you no matter your geography, occupation or age. We are all in this together. As a team we are working on the mantra to; stay safe, stay productive and stay kind. There are many long press releases from companies…

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PTC Acquires OnShape – Coffee Break News

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How is your month going so far, everyone? Yet another month has gone by so fast. But before we get into all the busyness of the new month, it is time once again for our monthly news round-up of current events…