The most common source for raster pdf documents are scanned hard copies and photo processing software. The most common source for vector based pdf files are other drafting programs. Of course, it is possible that the conversion program will generate a raster IN a dwg file since the user can bring raster images (photos) into AutoCad and use them for many things as a cross referenced dwg file, or an inserted background image, or even a source image for a 3D surface material. It should tell you a raster will not be editable. If these are raster pdf docs, the conversion program should have an error trap or message for this right up front. You can only convert vector based pdf documents to editable dwg files, those that are made up of mathematically generated lines. This is probably why AutoDesk has never included this function in AutoCad.Īre you possibly dealing with a raster image pdf as a source document, those consisting of pixels only? I can almost guarantee the output from Photoshop was a raster pdf. I'm going to hit the basics since I don't know your experience level with this type of conversion, I don't know the program you are using to do the conversion, and I personally don't convert pdf docs to dwg files because the conversion programs all have such highly inaccurate results. Maybe there is an easier way to convert PDF to DWG - if so I'd love to know to pass it along. Please ask for any more info needed and I'll give what I can. I tried using a very small glow-effect in Photoshop and saving that as a PDF, it gave me a conversion that opened in AutoCAD but my father said that he could not move individual lines or alter it to any effect he normally can, so it turned out it did not work.Īny help is appreciated, I'm hoping this isn't something dumb and I just can't figure it out. Here is a screenshot of the DWG after conversion: Īfter some google-fu I've come up short with an answer. However it provided a block of nothingness. Usually this provides a DWG file that he can open and immediately use. Here is what happens - using the program he selects the PDF he wants to convert, selects the appropriate version of AutoCAD (and we've tried both 20, as he has both), and then converts. My father tells me he hasn't had a problem using this to convert PDFs to DWGs since he's been using it. The problem is converting a PDF to DWG using the program AutoDWG PDF to DWG Converter, version 3.21 (2009).
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If I posted in the wrong subforum please feel free to move it. I'll provide as much information as I can, get what I'm missing if anyone requires it, and do my best to provide everyone with the tools they need to hopefully help solve my problem. He occasionally runs into trouble with a program and I try to help him as his son, but this is a problem I cannot solve and have come looking to forums about AutoCAD as a solution. First I'd like to clarify that I'm not a personal user of these programs, but that I do help my father who uses them extensively.