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pdf

Apostolos14 — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:28:21 GMT

good morning to all!
could i insert a sub-scale drawing in pdf format as a trace and draw my floor plan? can i catch points from pdf?

thanks!

Re: pdf

hevi — Wed, 01 Dec 2021 09:40:40 GMT

Yes.

The quick way to do it is to choose the view to which you want to insert the drawing > set the scale to the same as pdf drawing > drag the pdf file into the view > right-click the drawing object > explode into current view.

This results in the PDF vectors being converted to AC lines to which you can snap.

Re: pdf

Steve Jepson — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 05:29:51 GMT

To be precise, no, the pdf has nothing in it you can snap to. But yes, like thesleepofreason has said it. However, - if you explode the .pdf and it is not the scale you wanted, you can select all of it and resize it the same way you can resize a 2d image to a known scale. Sometimes the .pdf is generated as print-to-fit and might be some very odd scale.

Re: pdf

Tim Ball — Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:22:07 GMT

If you drop the PDF into a worksheet at the right scale, you can trace reference that worksheet and draw on top.

If the PDF is a vector type, you can explode it and use the snap points. However if it’s a raster PDF you can't explode it