import pdf

I would appreciate any help with this....

We were sent a small floor plan in Acrobat PDF and the sender says you
can import into AutoCAD and edit.

All I have been able to do is import the image (as pdf, as tiff...)
and scale it up or down and draw over it without the ability to snap
to lines/intersections etc.. Is there something we are missing here?

Thanks,
Patrick

 

How do you import a PDF as an image file?

 

Instead of going trough all the steps mentioned in the other answers, have a
dwg sent instead.
If they can't, let them sent another format you can use.
Let them do the work for it, not you unless they pay you extra and give you
more time.

Jan

 

One reason for drawings to be converted to pdf is to allow others to read
it *and* make it more difficult for the drawing to be altered. If they
have it in pdf it might have been supplied to them in that format
precisely because someone does not want their drawing to be used by
someone else.

 

This discussion has been done in another newsgroup, about propierty.
This kind of thinking is limping on two legs.

You have to redraw them by yourself.<
Bull.

If you don't trust people, don't sent them anything.(no pdf to)
If you trust people, sent them dwg's to produce their drawings accurate
accordingly to your drawings.

Why would any contractor change anything in someone's dwg's?
To hide his own mistakes?
To get the thing build somewhere else?
Afraid that a contractor pulls a block from a dwg?

How come we became so paranoid about electronic material.
We love to sent tons of paper and vellum over the world, nobody talks about
that.

Jan

 

my biggest issue with wanting to import PDF files is that sometimes I get
one that is too small to read. I would like to import it into CAD just to
print it out on the big plotter. as a vector document it takes up so much
memory & is suck a pin in the ass to try to plot. every part of a white page
is taking up memory. It always seems to take an hour or 2 & a couple tries
to get whatever program to get it right.

inserting it as a transparent raster image would be much faster & easier to
use. occasionally I have the need to plot it on a 1:1 scale to use as a
working pattern to locate holes or brakes,, ect..

make sense?

Rob

 

when working with large companies , I think the drawings get faxed &
scanned & emailed & such to where the person placing the order doesn't have
any type of cad program or even any contact with that department.

 

What are you talking about? I only stated that which I know to be true. I
did *not* declare that it was effective if someone knew how to overcome
the pdf format - but most CAD operators are just that, CAD operators, not
computer buffs or I.T. experts

 

:
: when working with large companies , I think the drawings get faxed &
: scanned & emailed & such to where the person placing the order doesn't have
: any type of cad program or even any contact with that department.
:
:
:

At my previous job we sent drawings out and received drawings in AutoCAD. The
only stipulation was that all were in Release 14 as it was the oldest package
on some of the desktops. While some of us had newer versions all drawings had
to be compatible with the oldest version.

 

No offense.
I was just trying to explain that the world is getting mad.
Everyone wants to import each file into whatever program, making programs
unneccessary big.
No one trusts oneanother when it comes to exchanging dwg's, food for
lawyers.
Thats it.

Sorry.

Jan

 

I agree entirely! The difficulty is (as I know from my own experience)
that drawing files sent to customers during negotiations on quotations
very frequently end up in the hands of competitors. Of course, even a
paper copy is useful to the competition and you can't protect against
copying that.

 

We have exactly this problem with a certain dental equipment supplier that
we have run across. We design the building and they want a cad file for
their design of the space...we give it to them....then they send back .plt
files or .pdf files instead of the .dwg files.

Claim they don't want people stealing their design...give me a break! They
have a chair, couple of tables, light and that's about it in the rooms.

We've started sending them .pdf files for the plan. Let them redraw it
themselves.

Mark T.

 

) Trouble is, they are the customer and you are the dog's body. They
might be able to find some other mug to do the work...

....unless your order book is more than full, of course!