How do you get drawings in digital notebooks

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  • Google drawings or something similar
  • CAD
  • Photos of real drawings
  • Drawing tablet
  • Ipad
  • Other(please elaborate)
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I would recommend printing off your digital notebook. It’s a lot easier to add your own hand drawn pictures and I think it overall feels more professional (This is subjective)

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There is this really really good app I remember using in the past: PhotoScan – scanner by Google Photos

You can draw on paper and then when you are done you can use your phone using the app to get really good scans using a decent camera on your phone.

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Our team uses an app called Concepts (windows, iOS, android) to do our drawings as it has really helpful features. We usually then screenshot and paste into the notebook.

@68031B while I do think hand-drawn is better for early sketches, it can be hard to get enough detail for proper planning. Also where I am most competitions don’t even take physical notebooks any more

@anon4126930 my personal favourite is Adobe Scan as that hasn’t got any watermarks and also is great for scanning long documents in general.

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For Concepts do you need to use a drawing tablet or ipad. Is it viable to use on a phone or with a mouse?

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you could totally use it with a mouse! I don’t know about using your hands though, ig you could buy a cheap touchscreen pen or something. I would recommend using a pen device though, for example a tablet with a pen. I wouldn’t recommend drawing tablet as one of the main features is its snap to grid.

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I use PowerPoint as my “cad” for mechinisms of m robot… Cad would be easier though.