Creating a line drawing from an image or 3D model

Turn a photograph or 3D model into a line drawing using the workflow linked in this technical note.

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If you are looking at submitting a patent application, you probably need to create a line drawing version of your work. This site has a great walkthrough guide:

Click this link to go to the website which walks you through it.

For a 3D model the easiest method I found was to just create a couple of versions of the model (eg. collapsed and expanded), then capture some screenshots of them from different perspectives. Then put all the screenshots into 1 "big picture", and follow that guide.

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