DRAFTSIGHT IMPORT PDF PDF
DRAFTSIGHT IMPORT PDF INSTALL

DRAFTSIGHT IMPORT PDF PDF

To start I choose a PDF drawing which had been generated out of SOLIDWORKS. The same can be said about the ability to Scale. You do have the option of when and where the file is to inserted. There is no option to deselect the “Insert as Block”. This allows the ability to select either a single page or multiple pages to insert. If the file has multiple pages then these are all “Previewed”. It is then a simple case of selecting the Browse button, navigating to and selecting the required pdf drawing file. The process then is very straight forward. A fairly minor process and when completed automatically takes you back to the PDF Import screen. Despite having “Registered” my DraftSight account (numerous times in the past) it still insisted that I, in fact, didn’t have an Account and that I was required to register for a “new” Account. Once installed you will find the the Add-In under Insert>PDF Import When you select the PDF Import for the first time, you are required to jump through a few hoops to have it activated.

DRAFTSIGHT IMPORT PDF INSTALL

It’s a reasonable straight forward process to download and install the Add In The PDF Import for DraftSight Add-In is available from the Graebert website (the developer of DraftSight for Dassualt Systémes) There is a 30day free trial! Which is a generous time to evaluate to see if you can’t live without the product, or if it doesn’t suit your requirements. With all that said I have a couple of thought to where having the ability to convert a pdf into a editable drawing format maybe of use for our requirements. More importantly these days manufactures are also becoming far more willing to supply the 3D model. I’m fortunate that most of the time if I require a drawing (especially vehicle plans) that it is available via the manufacturer. People still like Floor Plans, so I’m told! Although we do receive drawings in pdf I don’t ever recall having the desperate “need” to have a pdf made into a editable drawing format. SWOOD looks to be close to our requirements (but that’s a whole other story for another time) I also still produce “Floor Plans” for Marketing. This looks to be the case until I can find an acceptable Add-In to SOLIDWORKS which can not only do the job properly but can be made to talk to our CNC. Yes, we still export dxf (and manually nest) for importing into our CAM program – Enroute.

With our main use of DraftSight being for nesting dxf exported out of SOLIDWORKS. My use of DraftSight is reasonable limited these days. Last week on the SOLIDWORKS Tech Blog there was an interesting post on a PDF Import Add-In for DraftSight.

Draftsight import pdf