PDF to AutoCAD
S Scalise
pdf file. I would like to know if there is a way to
import/insert/referance/etc pdf files into an Autocad drawing.
Some of my clients are requiring specifications and product cut sheets be
included as part of the project drawings. They do not want a seperate book
of same. Many manufacturers provide pdf cut sheets and if these could be
placed directly into a drawing it would save a lot of time. I have done
Google searches and can only find Acad to pdf informantion. Acad help files
don't have anything.
Coping pdf to clipboard and pasting/past special into the drawing provides
very distorted imiages. Currently I am scanning the info sheets, saving them
to the project folder as jpeg files then inserting into a drawing. Surely an
easier method exists.
Thanks in advance
Sniffer
I use a program called leadtools eprint.
You can take a pdf file & convert it to a dxf which you can insert into a
drawing.
However, it converts everything to lines so dont expect it to be too
editable.
Sniffer
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S Scalise
pdf text documents to Word but graphic conversion is poor at best. I am
hoping for better.
Thanks for the reply.
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Bob Morrison
> My question is the opposite of posts asking how to "convert" a dwg file to a
> pdf file. I would like to know if there is a way to
> import/insert/referance/etc pdf files into an Autocad drawing.
>
If you have full blown version of Acrobat you can save the PDF as a TIFF
file, then import into your favorite cadd program.
--
Bob Morrison, PE, SE
R L Morrison Engineering Co
Structural & Civil Engineering
Poulsbo WA
S Scalise
options.
I now feel dumb!
Thank you.
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Tim Robben
It's a really good program for converting pdf to dxf.
Tim
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Troppo
>>>> My question is the opposite of posts asking how to "convert" a dwg
>>>> file to a pdf file.
> It's a really good program for converting pdf to dxf.
I can confirm that this program works, at least in IntelliCAD. Retains
lines and arcs anyway - text is vectorised but at least it is readable.
In the trial version at least, layers, colours, units (scale) may need
rebuilding.
The only way I could find to do this previously was to send the PDF file
to Illustrator on a high-end Mac, and export to a compatible format.
The bad news is - Printing a dwg to PDF is no longer a simple way of
protecting your drawings :-(
Jim Patrick
>I can confirm that this program works, at least in IntelliCAD. Retains
>lines and arcs anyway - text is vectorised but at least it is readable.
>In the trial version at least, layers, colours, units (scale) may need
>rebuilding.
>The only way I could find to do this previously was to send the PDF file
>to Illustrator on a high-end Mac, and export to a compatible format.
Ghostscript's (via GhostView) been doing it for years.
>The bad news is - Printing a dwg to PDF is no longer a simple way of
>protecting your drawings :-(
Hahahaha!! Troppo forgot to mention the loss of accuracy: Endpoints
that don't align, angles different, lines offset, etc etc.
The loss of precision is unavoidable, since PDF (a superset of
PostScript) doesn't support the numerical precision needed by CAD.
Converting from PDF to DWG or DXF gives a drawing that *looks* like
the PDF --once the lineweights are adjusted-- and that can be altered
or manipulated. But every position has been rounded to PDF's
description, and every dimension is suspect.
It's one of the nicer protections afforded by PDF. Customers can all
read/view the document; but the few morons who try to a rip-off don't
notice the degradation in the rip.
Troppo
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> Troppo wrote:
>
>>I can confirm that this program works
Correction ... very rough ... probably quicker to redraw
>>lines and arcs anyway
The conversion seems to pick up pen width assignments? Polylines with an
original width of zero can come out as eg 4 parallel lines, which can be
exploded.
Arcs come out as strings of complex polygons.
> Ghostscript's (via GhostView) been doing it for years.
Similarly very rough, and I never got it to handle vectors !
> Hahahaha!! Troppo forgot to mention the loss of accuracy: Endpoints
> that don't align, angles different, lines offset, etc etc.
>
> The loss of precision is unavoidable, since PDF (a superset of
> PostScript) doesn't support the numerical precision needed by CAD.
Of course - no OSnaps retained
> Converting from PDF to DWG or DXF gives a drawing that *looks* like
> the PDF --once the lineweights are adjusted-- and that can be altered
> or manipulated. But every position has been rounded to PDF's
> description, and every dimension is suspect.
>
> It's one of the nicer protections afforded by PDF. Customers can all
> read/view the document; but the few morons who try to a rip-off don't
> notice the degradation in the rip.
Try giving PDF 2 DXF a large drawing with hatching and it will lock up
or rattle on for hours - I didn't wait to find out which.