Dana W Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 All that background trash, blue & red hash marks, is actually a watermark placed in the drawing by the free product that was used to create it. Cheap at half the price. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 I wouldn't bother trying to use the converted drawing given its poor quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 The scale factor is 768, to get back to full size in modelspace. Somebody reduced the pdf to 8 1/2 x 11 when generating it. That's why the pdf converted to a drawing in modelspace that is so small, it's 8 1/2" by 11" in size. Why do they do that? It's a pdf, not a piece of paper. Anyway, once scaled back up to full size, it will fit on an Arch D 36 x 24 page, in a viewport scaled to 1/32" = 1'-0". a lot of the megabytes are coming from all those polylines making up the text that is not text any longer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 The converted CAD drawing isn't worth the paper that it isn't printed on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dana W Posted November 7, 2014 Share Posted November 7, 2014 Indoobitably not, on many levels. Never mind that almost none of the vectors are straight lines. I have people sending me pdf's full of field measurements and things that I need to know. They take a 24 x 36 hard copy to the site, write on it in pidgin chicken (I made up that language), scan it at a local Kinko's or something and they tell them to email it to me in a letter size (raster, of course) pdf. When I try to zoom in to see what's on it or enlarge it to print it out, the resolution is so bad the whole exercise is rendered futile. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 8, 2014 Share Posted November 8, 2014 Yes, this whole exercise appears to be futile as well. A sketch done on a cocktail napkin would probably be of better quality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobDraw Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I think we need a few more posts telling us about the quality of the drawing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReMark Posted November 10, 2014 Share Posted November 10, 2014 I think I have a stalker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ski_Me Posted November 11, 2014 Share Posted November 11, 2014 Ok so this thread has gone off the rails I guess, crashed and burst into flames. It should be clear at this point that this drawing was a map that was on a 8 1/2 X 11 that the OP or somebody else scanned in with their $89 wireless do it all printer. To even think that you could get something useful from this is foolish. Since this is a mall there has to be a set of prints in the maintenance office. Pull out the scale and start in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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