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Best way to convert from Autocad to PDF?
Posted on 4/22/16 at 4:13 pm
Posted on 4/22/16 at 4:13 pm
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Posted on 4/22/16 at 4:16 pm to Breadstick Gun
Does the command 'exportpdf' not work?
Posted on 4/22/16 at 5:03 pm to Breadstick Gun
Print and select Adobe PDF as your printer.
Posted on 4/22/16 at 5:42 pm to Breadstick Gun
Print to pdf
Posted on 4/22/16 at 10:50 pm to Breadstick Gun
We use PDFCreator at work. It basically prints to PDF.
Posted on 4/22/16 at 11:27 pm to Breadstick Gun
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Best way to convert from Autocad to PDF?
Perhaps you shouldn't be using a computer.
Posted on 4/22/16 at 11:35 pm to SG_Geaux
Like others have said, it's pretty easy. You do need to have your line weights set up correctly for it to look it's best. But if you're asking this question, you probably don't know what line weights are.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 9:41 am to Breadstick Gun
Don't take this the wrong way, but if you don't know how to do this, you probably shouldn't be using Autocad. Autocad has a built-in pdf plotter listen in the plotter options.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:19 am to BottomlandBrew
What about batch converting .dwg to .pdf?
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:14 am to SmellslikeKevinBacon
A dwg is 1:1 scale. You need to define a scale to get it into a pdf. The only way I know to do that is in paper space in CAD.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 2:28 pm to BottomlandBrew
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The only way I know to do that is in paper space in CAD.
I usually just input the scale I want to plot in the plot dialog setup....all in model space.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 6:33 pm to Breadstick Gun
Cutepdf is what we use.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 9:29 pm to SG_Geaux
We are getting a logo screen printed onto jerseys for a softball team. A teammate's wife created it using cad and gave us the file. The business doing the screen printing needs it in PDF format.
I'm not using cad. She is, but she's out of town now. All we have is the image in .cad format. The screen printer says saving or printing as PDF will not work for him. The file needs to be converted.
I print to PDF and digitally sign documents every day. I do not deal with screen printers or cad every day.
I'm not using cad. She is, but she's out of town now. All we have is the image in .cad format. The screen printer says saving or printing as PDF will not work for him. The file needs to be converted.
I print to PDF and digitally sign documents every day. I do not deal with screen printers or cad every day.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:04 pm to Breadstick Gun
Autodesk makes a free product called Trueview, where you can open a CAD file. I've only used it to open an earlier file format and save down, but I think you can print to PDF from there too.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 10:30 pm to Breadstick Gun
Just print screen and make a pdf of the jpeg or bmp file. Autocad prints in pdf though. You can select window mode and draw a box around the object and print that way. Sounds like someone doesnt know how to use it.
Posted on 4/23/16 at 11:20 pm to saintsfan1977
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Just print screen and make a pdf of the jpeg or bmp file.
Would probably too low a dpi for printing a quality document. Email the file to me and I'll print it to PDF.
Posted on 4/24/16 at 10:59 am to Breadstick Gun
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All we have is the image in .cad format.
.CAD is an old file format from a software called QuickCAD. Autodesk acquired QuickCAD to essentially dissolve competition. Autodesk purposely left out .CAD functionality.
Even if you can open .CAD, you may not be getting full functionality to print as PDF. (This may also be the reason the screen printing company needs PDF because even they can't figure out how to get it to a workable format)
This post was edited on 4/24/16 at 11:00 am
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