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CAD Conversion - Your Solution to Handling Paper or Raster Based Drawings

Engineering drawings and designs for all types of engineering / design specialties have always been handled on physical media like papers, blue prints, film, vellum, tracings etc. Draftspersons drew these as a master on tracings and then used them to create copies for their engineering / manufacturing teams. Any revisions for the master drawings was also always a cumbersome and untidy process which usually left behind elements of imperfections / stains on the master prints. Old or new whatever the history or creation date of these drawings they carry important information regarding the design of the structure or the product they were created for. Along with the untidy and cumbersome editing issue, there exists one more problem and that is of storing, indexing and handling physical drawings on a regular basis. So much so that there exist rooms full of drawing storage and holding racks in larger organizations / design firms. This storage facility and indexing system has always been impo...