Darn, it has been five years since I did this and can't remember how.
Neither my Carlson 2012 Survey with embedded autocad nor my PDF reader allow me to convert autocad to PDF. Am I missing a command, or do I need another program?
Stephen
download cute pdf printer for free, print it as a pdf from cad.
Cute PDF, I Agree
Very happy with it.
Paul in PA
It is a print function in my AutoCAD Civil3D, rather than a conversion or "save as".
Thanks guys
Stephen
Autodesk Trueview (their free viewer) allows conversion of a DWG or DXF to a PDF with layers.
Under the PLOT command, at the printer selection window, select "DWG to PDF...." and have at it.
This will give you a PDF with layers. I don't believe cutepdf does.
and if you do not want the layers you can hit the "Properties" radio button and turn them on and off as needed.
Trueview is fine, but it takes over too much stuff from Carlson. Every time I load that mess, I can no longer view my dwg files using Explorer and have Carlson used as the file viewer.
I create pdf's through the plot command often but using publish seems to make a smaller file so I use that when plotting drawings with lots of orthophotos. This is with C3D.
Interesting, I did not think of this!
cptdent
My purpose is to send a drawing to an architect electronically. Both in autocad and pdf. What would be most likely to work at his end?
Stephen
I do it every day. I run the plot to PDF that I showed you. I set it to show layers, just because I think that is SO neat. Then I send an email with the PDF and the DWG file attached. (Simply save the PDF file to the same folder as the dwg file so you can find them in one place.)