PDF to AutoCAD

My question is the opposite of posts asking how to "convert" a dwg file to a
pdf file. I would like to know if there is a way to
import/insert/referance/etc pdf files into an Autocad drawing.

Some of my clients are requiring specifications and product cut sheets be
included as part of the project drawings. They do not want a seperate book
of same. Many manufacturers provide pdf cut sheets and if these could be
placed directly into a drawing it would save a lot of time. I have done
Google searches and can only find Acad to pdf informantion. Acad help files
don't have anything.

Coping pdf to clipboard and pasting/past special into the drawing provides
very distorted imiages. Currently I am scanning the info sheets, saving them
to the project folder as jpeg files then inserting into a drawing. Surely an
easier method exists.

Thanks in advance

 

Hi

I use a program called leadtools eprint.
You can take a pdf file & convert it to a dxf which you can insert into a
drawing.

However, it converts everything to lines so dont expect it to be too
editable.

Sniffer

 

I have another program called PDF Converter 2. It does a good job converting
pdf text documents to Word but graphic conversion is poor at best. I am
hoping for better.
Thanks for the reply.

 

In a previous post says...

If you have full blown version of Acrobat you can save the PDF as a TIFF
file, then import into your favorite cadd program.

 

I do have full version and it never occured to me to check the Acrobat
options.
I now feel dumb!
Thank you.

 

Try to download the program: CAD-KAS PDF 2 DXF 1.0

It's a really good program for converting pdf to dxf.

Tim

 

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I can confirm that this program works, at least in IntelliCAD. Retains
lines and arcs anyway - text is vectorised but at least it is readable.
In the trial version at least, layers, colours, units (scale) may need
rebuilding.
The only way I could find to do this previously was to send the PDF file
to Illustrator on a high-end Mac, and export to a compatible format.
The bad news is - Printing a dwg to PDF is no longer a simple way of
protecting your drawings :-(

 

The conversion seems to pick up pen width assignments? Polylines with an
original width of zero can come out as eg 4 parallel lines, which can be
exploded.
Arcs come out as strings of complex polygons.

Similarly very rough, and I never got it to handle vectors !

Try giving PDF 2 DXF a large drawing with hatching and it will lock up
or rattle on for hours - I didn't wait to find out which.