watapatata Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 Greetings to all! Hi everyone! I am Nelson from Singapore, I am an autocad user for about 2 years or so. I used, autocad 2005, revit mep 2008 and 2011. I'm not really an expert in using CAD softwares because I usually do manual drawings then I have to let the drafters/encoders to the CAD works. So basically the problem is we have converted a PDF drawings to DWG files. But the created file was very large like 50mb per file. When I tried to look at it in 3D view, it looks like a city.. but it is not solids and some lines are made from hatches. Before I remember we tried the flatten command to flatten the drawings but when I use the softwares that we have (from autodesk) it doesnt have that command. I searched the net for some solutions or an equivalent command for flatten but it doesn't solve the problem. can someone please help me out on this one. thank you very much for your time and effort. Cheers! Quote
Organic Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 we have converted a PDF drawings to DWG files. But the created file was very large like 50mb per file. When I tried to look at it in 3D view, it looks like a city.. but it is not solids and some lines are made from hatches. How (as in what program) did you use to 'convert' your PDF to dwg format? PDFs do not convert very well to dwgs at all as I think you have just found out. The best thing to do (or only really) if to either get the original dwg file from wherever the pdf is from, or to insert the pdf into a drawing and manually trace over it/replicate it in AutoCad. Quote
watapatata Posted March 28, 2011 Author Posted March 28, 2011 Hi guys! just found a solution! thanks! Quote
watapatata Posted March 28, 2011 Author Posted March 28, 2011 Hmmm.. the one who converted those files are not here in the office.. sorry I couldn't answer that question.. And you are right, pdf to dwg is not really accurate. the dimensions has many discrepancies and some lines are made from hatched in some cases. Anyway I just remembered about the thickness and that solved the problem. Thanks guys! Quote
Organic Posted March 28, 2011 Posted March 28, 2011 How does line thickness 'solve' the problem out of interest? Quote
lillian Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 There are various of application that helps you converts PDF to DWG, I tried some of them and found the AutoDWG PDFin PDF converter works wonderful, it converts may drawing perfectly, almost retain all entities as original AutoCAD drawing, and yes it is totally editable. I upgraded to the stand-alone version later, as that one also convert my scanned PDF file into vector drawings. For more information of AutoDWG PDFin PDF converter chick it here: http://www.autodwg.com/pdf-to-dwg-converter Quote
Tiger Posted April 14, 2011 Posted April 14, 2011 ...: http://www.autodwg.com/pdf-to-dwg-converter It is a buyable product with a 15-day trial. Quote
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