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MSTG007

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PDF directly into CAD?
« on: April 25, 2005, 12:36:03 PM »
Does anyone know how to take a PDF directly into CAD?

Any ideas? it be great if we could do that...  maybe PDF manager? like image manager or xref...

I just thought it might be something to look at... less work on converting the PDF to a tiff or BMP  what ever...

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« Reply #1 on: April 25, 2005, 12:42:06 PM »
I don't think your gonna find that anywhere.  PDF is a proprietery format which competes with AutoCAD DWF format (or maybe DWF competes against PDF  :) ) and I don't think Adobe is going to give up that code unless of course Autodesk "ASSIMILATES" them. :lol:

Autodesk:  "RESISTANCE IS FUTILE."

Adobe: "Oh No!  It's another Micro$oft!"

 :lol:  :lol:  :lol:
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« Reply #2 on: April 25, 2005, 12:43:42 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: April 25, 2005, 12:46:25 PM »
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More than you can shake a stick at.

I think he asked for a way to take a PDF into DWG, your link was for DAG to PDF.
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« Reply #4 on: April 25, 2005, 12:47:45 PM »
DAG? Is this a Peter Sellers reference? :)

The link was for DWG to PDF conversion and vice versa.
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« Reply #5 on: April 25, 2005, 12:49:31 PM »
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DAG?

The link was for DWG to PDF conversion and vice versa.


I saw no viable links for PDF to DWG.
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« Reply #6 on: April 25, 2005, 12:52:47 PM »
I convert my PDFs to jpegs, then bring them into Autocad, and saveas Tiffs.  Sounds like a lot of work, but it only takes a few minutes per PDF.  (I use jpeg b/c PDF -> Tiff seems to loose resolution)
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« Reply #7 on: April 25, 2005, 01:15:29 PM »
like i said... it was just a thought... we can create some cool things
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« Reply #8 on: April 25, 2005, 05:04:59 PM »
Hi

Check out the following Technical Document on the Autodesk web site under the Knowledge Base section -

ID: TS43623 - Importing PDF files

Have a good one, Mike
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« Reply #9 on: April 26, 2005, 10:13:51 AM »
You can open the pdf in Adobe illustrator and save it out as a .dwg file
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« Reply #10 on: November 04, 2005, 09:29:26 AM »
I know it might be late but better late than never. Check these out:
http://www.autodwg.com/pdf-to-dwg.htm
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file_description/0,fid,26461,00.asp
Please keep in mind I have not tried these out myself, they are just some things I stumbled across. If anyone has already, or will, try these out please let us know how they worked out.
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« Reply #11 on: November 04, 2005, 11:11:01 AM »
Just DLd these two and neither is worth the effort.  The first breaks non-ortho lines, arcs and curves into a gazillion unconnected line segs.  The second is even worse!  It seems to read everything as pixles and converts everything into squares & rectangles.......yuuuck!  On a 1 to 10........-2
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« Reply #12 on: March 21, 2006, 08:45:30 AM »
The workaround that I use is to print the PDF to DWF using the DWF writer printer, then copy the DWF to the clipboard and use the special paste function in the edit menu in AutoCad to paste the DWF in as a autocad entities.  This works OK, but there is a few things that you'll need to clean up.  For instance, all the text is individual pieces of text.  I use the express tools
and convert all the text to mtext to solve this. The other real annoying thing is that if the PDF has any images embedded in it, they will not paste in as autocad entities.  You'll have to paste them in a image entities.  Mark tells me, he has a way to deal with this though.
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« Reply #13 on: March 21, 2006, 03:16:56 PM »
Use Ghostscript / GSView http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost and PStoEdit http://www.pstoedit.net/pstoedit

Generally works, though I usually had better quality using CorelDraw, but sometimes my version can't open newer PDFs.

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Re: PDF directly into CAD?
« Reply #14 on: March 28, 2006, 07:04:57 AM »
Hey. if you can copy a dwf view from the viewer to the autocad by paste special, Do you think in 2k7 the attach overlay of a dwf into a dwg is easier and worth it?

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