Just as an aside, here are a couple of posts on the topic of straightening photos - just including them now after fact in case someone finds them and can use them.
I am missing something here I think.
If the panels are always flat, it’s a very simple thing to trace in your cad software very accurately and very quickly without the need for any fancy stuff.
Of course you need to have a reasonably accurate photograph. An iphone has all the tools built in so I presume an Android would have similar.
At the risk of telling you how to suck eggs, but this might be helpful to someone else.
I do exactly this:
I place the object on an accurately gridded surfa…
I’m not sure if I’m missing something here, and I assume there’s a similar function in an Android Phone - I regularly “scan” odd shapes using my iPhone - I usually use photoshop to transform to the original shape, but you can use the crop feature in the phone to do a fairly good job.
Place the object on a square grid so that you have a reference.
Turn on “grid” on your phone and line it up as best you can with the square grid background. The phone has a pair of cross hairs (see the yellow a…
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