PDF import - ArchiCAD SE2012

[Anonymous]

How can one import PDF file to Archicad SE2012. It is ever possible?
Roman

[Eduardo Rolon]

In regular AC you have to options, either go File->External Content -> Place External Drawing or use the Drawing tool

[Eduardo Rolon]

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[Rafal SLEK]

ejrolon wrote:
In regular AC you have to options, either go File->External Content -> Place External Drawing or use the Drawing tool

Unfortunately this tool doesn't work for SE version. You have to use Figure tool instead. One of the more important difference is that it is not linked PDF so it can't be updated automatically and you could not choose page if it is multipage PDF.

[Anonymous]

I tried to use Figure tool, but with no success. Nothing was imported.
It seems there is no way to open pdfs in SE versions.

[Rafal SLEK]

Roman wrote:
I tried to use Figure tool, but with no success. Nothing was imported.
It seems there is no way to open pdfs in SE versions.

It works in my SE2012 but this is Polish version, in my country there is no INT ACSE so I could not check it.

[rocorona]

I suspect that it is a Mac/Win issue. The MacOS allows you to read a PDF as an "image type" file.
A lucky unintended feature of the Figure tool

[Karl Ottenstein]

Correct:
http://www.archicadwiki.com/DifferenceBetweenDrawingAndFigureTools

@Roman: A workaround for a Windows SE user would be to convert the PDF to an image format and place the resulting image. Any number of photo editors and/or PDF tools can re-save a PDF as an image. The negative is that it will now be pixels and not vectors, so you'll want to convert with a pixel density that works for your intended usage.

Another workaround is to convert the PDF to a DWG using something like Illustrator. The advantage here is that you will end up with not just scalable vectors (if the original PDF contained vectors, generated by some software - image scan-PDFs will NOT be vectorized) - but also snap points.

[Anonymous]

I just read SE 2013 specs and if I am not wrong, it has external drawings (besides others improvements), so this might be the way.