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Jeff H

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Getting lengths from a PDF
« on: February 02, 2011, 02:55:39 PM »
We are doing a short-circuit analysis and need about 50 lengths.

Is it quicker to find a measurement and scale a PDF and use cad to find the lengths or do it the old fashion way?
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sugarCAD

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2011, 03:13:25 PM »
Either way sounds good for 50 lengths. I would put the PDF into AutoCAD so I could save a record of the lengths. Also a good time to ask the boss for some conversion software.
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Jeff H

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2011, 03:38:28 PM »
Thanks sugarCad
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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2011, 04:16:37 PM »
Quote from: sugarCAD on February 02, 2011, 03:13:25 PM
Either way sounds good for 50 lengths. I would put the PDF into AutoCAD so I could save a record of the lengths. Also a good time to ask the boss for some conversion software.
isn't that ability only available in version 2010 & up?
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Jeff H

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2011, 04:18:21 PM »
Don't know unistalled 2009?
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CAB

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #5 on: February 03, 2011, 11:22:52 AM »
My method is to capture a picture file of the PDF and insert in ACAD.
Then use the ALIGN command to align & scale to a known length.
Draw over the objects & get the length needed.

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 11:38:03 AM »
Quote from: CAB on February 03, 2011, 11:22:52 AM
My method is to capture a picture file of the PDF and insert in ACAD.
Then use the ALIGN command to align & scale to a known length.
Draw over the objects & get the length needed.



Align command with scale option - FTW.

I've had to do that a couple times to get rough drawings of equipment and other not-to-scale-but-handy-for-reference objects.
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Mark

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 12:11:08 PM »
In 2011 you can attach a .pdf and, if the pdf is new enough, you can snap end points.
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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #8 on: February 03, 2011, 12:22:20 PM »
Quote from: Mark on February 03, 2011, 12:11:08 PM
In 2011 you can attach a .pdf and, if the pdf is new enough, you can snap end points.

the PDF has to be vector based in order to pull the points direct.  raster PDF's won't have points.
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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #9 on: February 03, 2011, 03:03:19 PM »
Quote from: Nibster on February 02, 2011, 04:16:37 PM
Quote from: sugarCAD on February 02, 2011, 03:13:25 PM
Either way sounds good for 50 lengths. I would put the PDF into AutoCAD so I could save a record of the lengths. Also a good time to ask the boss for some conversion software.
isn't that ability only available in version 2010 & up?

I have been inserting PDFs for quite awhile.
I never said anything about an underlay....

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Jeff H

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Re: Getting lengths from a PDF
« Reply #10 on: February 05, 2011, 11:20:56 AM »
I was going the route that our great leader Mark posted, but has certain security options enabled that ask for password.

Guess I will snip a image and insert that.
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