Autocad File Converter 2013 To 2007
Janne Evers
So basically, short story I was working on a project on autocad 2016 and my laptop got stolen. Luckily, I had saved theses drawings to PDF to show my boss the progress, so I was wondering if anyone could help me with any advice on, how I could get these PDFs back into DWG format, and of course to scale. I spent so much of time on this and I can't afford to loose time again to redraw this up.
What a bummer! DO you not back up your files to a thumbdrive or to the cloud? If all you have left is the vector-based PDFs, then yes, AutoCAD 2017 with updates applied should be able to import your PDF's. There will be some accuracy loss but it is a good starting point.
Every time I read that project data gets lost and a lot of time was spent I can't stop from sending again and again the remembering that backup's are a must, not an option (hoping that some readers now get a simple USB harddisk and run a simple copy of the project data and place this drive to a position different to the place of the source data).
Even that has destroyed all your structure, PDF's does not contain any structure, all is equal to AutoCAD has used _EXPLODE for every object, no blocks, no dimensions, no 3D-objects, nothing exists in a PDF you had in the DWG.
If you need again full structured drawings I would suggest to import the PDF into as new drawing, then create a new drawing and use _XREF to reference this previous drawing and now start to draw from scratch. Use the XRef just for orientation, but do not use the objects from the PDF directly.
Bad luck. Unfortunately I don't have better solution for this...
PS Imported PDF geometry can be scaled at a given known factor only if PDF was exported to defined scale. If not it can be scaled using scale - reference.
Bear in mind though, the PDF is NOT precision vector software -- originally it was developed as a portable document format so letter size pages would look and print the same regardless of OS or printer. Expecting something that was intended to run at 150/ 300 dpi to create a drawing exactly as the original dwg is not realistic. 'close enough' may be good enough, or may not.
Converting from any raster-based format to a vector-based format is bound to be "risky" and difficult in terms of getting any accuracy or precision. The results may be more trouble to work with than drawing it yourself, using the info in the PDF as a guide.
My company uses Able2Extract Professional software. The website is www.investintech.com/ It will extract PDF to Excel, PowerPoint, Word, AutoCAD, & Publisher. It works best if the PDF you have was created originally with AutoCAD.
Although many PDF's contain raster images, the PDF file format isn't raster specific. The PDF file format can contain raster images, paths (polylines) that can be optionally be filled, or text objects. There is no other object type (even a circle is rendered as 4 bezier curve paths).
The DWG is just a gate way for getting the geometry to import into Inventor sketches to produce models. We are not making the object, we are just making close representations to use as assests in Factory designs. We deal with may Japanese company that will not supply anything but a pdf to us so it is quicker to be able to translate to dwg.
I get some PDF files that we need to edit in AutoCAD and I am looking for a PDF to DWG converter for work. I downloaded Aide PDF to DXF Converter (www.aidecad.com) and Any PDF to DWG Converter ( -to-dwg.html), the programs worked great with converting vector and raster PDF files into DXF/DWG files which can then be edited by AutoCAD.
Our company installs aXsware's command line version in our server, then I can use the command line to call in the program to batch convert pdf to dwg, you could go to for more details. Hope it can help you.
By the way, there's another online automatically solution, such as , it can automatically convert the uploaded pdf file to DWG, just upload the pdf file and then you will get the converted dwg file immediately.
If you would, please email the PDF to support [at] dotsoft [dot] com and we will take a look at it. We completely overhauled our rendering last fall and if you have an old version we may handle it better now.
So for roughly the cost of some other PDF only tools, you can have great PDF functionality plus over 700 other productivity tools.
Note that this additional functionality is only available in ToolPac (not the PdfImport/PDF2DWG subsets).
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My company has switched over to Autocad and the previous employee was using PowerCADD 9. Does anyone know of a file converter to transfer files from .PC9 to .DWG? I have 10,000+ files so manual is really out of the question.
A quick google search learns that it apparently is a common question among PowerCADD users. There should be a plugin in PowerCADD that allows you to export to .dwg, so if you still have an active licence you could try to adress that a batch file.
There seems to have been an answer to a similar question on this website, but it seems to be locked behind a paywall.
The license is expired. I have been searching all around and most of the answers are converting to files FOR powercadd. Essentially going the opposite way of .dwg to .pc9. Otherwise it is for exporting from powercadd as a single .dwg but I am hoping to find some method of converting them outside of powercadd.
Funny that you mention the paywall option because I found that and signed up for it hoping for a resolution. The answer you have to pay for: "Not that I know of." Not exaggerating that was the actual answer.
I really hope you didn't have to shell out any money for that...
As Pendean said, your best bet is to get to the PowerCADD forums and ask those users. If they have a solution (even a paying one) you're more likely to learn about it there. Otherwise there might also be people that are able to write you converters. It is more costly but that might be a cost-benefit analysis worth making for your boss if the only alternative you have right now is re-buying powercadd licences so you can do manual conversions. (especially hammer down on the lost/gained man-hours of manual conversion)
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