PDF's into AutoCAD

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  1. Willallison
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    Willallison Senior Member

    Many manufacturers post drawings of their products for download in a PDF format.
    Is it possible to import a PDF drawing into AutoCAD?
     
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  2. SeaSpark
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    Corel Draw

    Corel Draw can import PDF and export to DXF.

    Working trial version is available for download.
     
  3. SeaSpark
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    Vector images

    Of course this only work for vector images.

    If PDF contains bitmaps you will be able to extract them using Corel Draw and use them as a background image in autocad for tracing. Or use tre tracing program in Corel package and clean it up in Autocad.
     
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    SailDesign Old Phart! Stay upwind..

    Rhino also imports pdf files. As does Adobe Illustrator.
     
  5. solrac
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    solrac 100% sudaca

    many converters out there, but some of them convert acrobat format to raster image, to be really useful you must convert it to a vectorized image

    try aidecad, a pdf to vector dxf converter:

    www.aidecad.com

    you can download a free trial version from their site,install it & just convert the original pdf to dxf format, import it on autocad and just done. you can stretch, scale & modify the vectorized lines....:D
     
  6. Hans Friedel
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    Insert

    Try "Insert" and "raster image"

    Sometime you have to save the pdf file as Tiff but that can be done with the Acrobate Reader

    Hans
     

  7. E Hanson
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    E Hanson Junior Member

    In addition to the previously mentioned Rhino PDF import, I use a freeware program called Wintopo to convert raster to vector. Here is the website: http://wintopo.com/
    With PDF files that Rhino cannot deal with, I cut and past the detail out of the pdf into Microsoft "Paint", save it as a JPG, open it in Wintopo, and save it as DXF. Once in DXF, I open it in AutoCAD, scale and clean the drawing and its done. It souunds like allot of file to file to file business, but you get practiced and it is allot faster then redrawing the detail from scratch.
     
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