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In this article, we overview the process of converting AutoCAD format to PDF, JPEG, TIFF, PNG, BMP, DCX, PCX, TXT – with different application tools. Sometimes users need to send several AutoCAD designs to another person in an unaltered format, but AutoCAD does not allow many DWG, DXF to be converted to PDF at a time. Using the software and converters mentioned here, you can batch convert, print and combine your AutoCAD drawings to PDF or images. Once saved as a PDF file, there’s no need to download special CAD software. A drawing can be opened on any computer – even a web browser will do!
On this page:
- Other DWG Conversion Tools
How to Convert Autodesk AutoCAD Drawing to PDF
- Open the drawing in Autodesk AutoCAD and click Plot
- Select Universal Document Converter from the list of plotters
- Click Properties… > Custom Properties… > File Format > PDF document
- Change What to plot option to Extents
- Check options Center the plot and Fit to paper like shown on the screenshot below
- Click OK to start converting AutoCAD to PDF
Print AutoCAD DWG to PDF – Detailed Video Tutorial
Use this tutorial to print AutoCAD DWG to PDF with virtual printer Universal Document Converter:
Combine Several Drawings Into a Single PDF
- Open the drawing and click Print (Plot)
- Select Universal Document Converter from the list of plotters and click Properties
- Select Custom Properties on the Device and Document Settings tab and click Custom Properties button in the Access Custom Dialog section
- On the Universal Document Converter settings panel, change paper size according to your preferences
- Change the destination file format to PDF Document
- Select Append all documents to the existing file feature like shown on the screenshot below
- Click OK
After this, all the drawings will be appended to the PDF file you selected in the Output location menu.
Split Layout Sheets Into Separate PDFs
A DWG drawing can consist of multiple layout tabs (sheets). When converting DWG to PDF or TIFF, you may need to save each layout as a separate PDF file or have the ability to select only certain layouts of a drawing. Universal Document Converter allows you to do so. You can set processing only the current tab, set a specific range or all tabs. You can also select between multipage and split options, here’s a simple scenario:
- Open the drawing and click Print (Plot)
- Select Universal Document Converter and click Properties
- Open Universal Document Converter settings
- Go to File Format
- Select Create single-page file for each page
You can split DWG drawings into separate files using our virtual printer and other tools described in this article: FolderMill, Print Conductor + UDC, DocuFreezer.
Convert AutoCAD DWG Into a Password Protected PDF
A password protected PDF will guarantee that only authorized users will be able to open the information contained in the drawing, thus keeping it confidential.
- Open the drawing and click Print (Plot)
- Select Universal Document Converter and click Properties
- Select Custom Properties on the Device and Document Settings tab and click Custom Properties button in the Access Custom Dialog section
- On the Universal Document Converter settings panel, change the size of the page according to your preferences
- Change the destination file format to PDF Document
- Select Password Protected standard of PDF and enter a password
Now the Universal Document Converter is ready to convert your drawing into a password protected PDF file.
Add Watermark on the Drawing to Copyright your Project
Watermarking your drawings is one of the ways to copyright your intellectual property and protect it from illegal use.
- Open the drawing and click Print (Plot)
- Select Universal Document Converter from the list of plotters and click Properties
- Select Custom Properties on the Device and Document Settings tab and click Custom Properties button in the Access Custom Dialog section
- On the Universal Document Converter settings panel, go to the Watermark section. Select the type of watermark you wish to use.
Open DWG and other files without AutoCAD
Just need to view a file? You don’t need to download 2D or 3D CAD programs – a viewer will do. We suggest a standalone offline viewer, approved by SolidWorks – eDrawings Viewer. It is compatible with Universal Document Converter and supports popular CAD formats: DXF and DWG, eDRW, ePRT, eASM, SolidWorks and others. Alternatively, Autodesk offers its Autodesk Viewer. It is an online CAD viewing tool where you upload files and see them through the browser interface. Another option is to download an open source free CAD program, e.g., LibreCAD, which can be easily found on the Internet.
If you want your client, colleague or a business partner to be able to open your CAD drawings, assume that they might not have the necessary program or viewer. So it’s better to save it to a more universally accepted format such as PDF. Therefore it’s easier to convert a file to PDF in advance. In this article, you can choose the most suitable PDF conversion method for you.
Other DWG Conversion Tools
Convert AutoCAD DWG to PDF in Batch Mode
To convert many drawings saved as AutoCAD DWG files into the PDF format, i.e., to provide opportunities for batch converting AutoCAD DWG to PDF, use Print Conductor software together with Universal Document Converter.
- Add drawings you would like to convert to the List of Documents
- Select Universal Document Converter as printer
- Click Change Settings to set the destination folder and PDF Document as an output file format
- Click Start to begin converting drawings and charts to PDF.
Convert DWG to PDF Automatically – without AutoCAD
You don’t need to have expensive CAD systems or any third-party software installed to be able to convert DWG to PDF or image file types with software like FolderMill. FolderMill monitors Hot Folders for supported documents. When identified, the FolderMill service batches and sorts incoming documents then outputs them to a printer driver associated with the Hot Folder. One of the pros of this program is the ability to print or convert DWG files to PDF without AutoCAD.
Convert Multiple Drawings with Free DWG to PDF Converter
If you are looking for a reliable and straightforward file converter – Docufreezer is the right choice. It is a very intuitive tool that can sort in the correct order and bulk export your CAD drawings to PDF. The output file types are PDF, TXT and image formats (TIFF, JPG, PNG). This file converter can OCR your documents too – this feature was added recently. So, you can also save your document scans to plain text files or searchable PDFs.
Convert AutoCAD DXF to PDF
DXF stands for Drawing eXchange Format. Compared to DWG, it usually contains less data – only line work, dimensions, and text. While .dwg is the default file format and the most popular one, sometimes you may need to save the file in the .dxf format. All software mentioned in this guide supports this format as well.
AutoCAD to PDF Code Examples for Developers
Software developers may need to implement some already existing features of the Universal Document Converter into their software. We offer several types of resources that will help developers concentrate on their own projects: a public API, code examples and automatic deployment ability.
Here are some examples on how to convert AutoCAD drawings to PDF in different programming languages.
You can use the conversion core of the Universal Document Converter to broaden the conversion functionality by adding your own developments to the existing practices.
Related conversion tutorials:
- Convert AutoCAD to: JPG, TIFF
- Create PDF file from: QuarkXPress, TIFF, Images, HTML, Access, Web page, PDF, CHM, DjVu, Outlook, Images, Documents, Excel, doc-file, Visio, PowerPoint, Excel, Word
- Elizabeth KotaevaCopywriter from Russia«At the present moment, I can already say that the use of Universal Document Converter has raised the return on orders that were not paid for in advance by approximately 30%!»
Guest post by Paul Munford (The CAD Setter Out)
Have you been Plotting or Printing Adobe® ‘Portable Document Files’ from your AutoCAD drawings? Check out AutoCAD's Export to PDF tool for a simple alternative.
The ability to ‘Plot’ PDF files directly from AutoCAD has been on the AUGI wish list for many years. PDF remains the standard ‘Electronic’ file format for drawing exchange in the AEC Industries. PDF support was finally added to AutoCAD in 2009.
If you have worked with previous versions of AutoCAD before release 2009, then you may have added a ‘Virtual’ PDF plotter to your computer. To create a PDF you would have had to send your Plot file to this Virtual Plotter, which would create a PDF instead of a paper plot.
This feature has now been built directly into AutoCAD. You can send your plots straight to AutoCAD's DWG to PDF.pc3 Plot configuration file to create your PDF’s.
But there is a faster and easier way…
How to ‘Export’ PDF files from AutoCAD Drawings in two simple steps.
Exporting PDF files from an AutoCAD drawing is a simple two step process:
- Click the export button
- Type in a file name (optional!) and hit the ‘Save’ button.
It’s as easy as that!
How to Export PDF files from AutoCAD drawings – in a little more detail!
The Export to PDF command can easily be found on the ‘Export to DWF/PDF’ panel of the ‘Output’ tab.
If you are not using the Ribbon, you can export from the command line by typing ‘EXPORTPDF’.
This will open the ‘Save as PDF’ dialogue, where you chose where to save your PDF, and what you want to call it. Click ‘Save’ and you are done!
To make sure your PDF plot looks how you are expecting it to, make sure that your Layout is set up to plot from your regular plotter first. If you set this up in your template file – you should only have to do it once.
Fine tuning the Export to PDF process
If the two step process is to simple for you - there are a few more options you can use to tailor this process to your needs.
The Export dropdown allows you to choose whether to Export the current Layout or all layouts in the file.
If you are in Model space, you will also have the option to choose ’Display’, ‘Extents’ or ‘Window’ plot.
The Page setup dropdown allows you to use the current plot settings, or override them.
If you chose ‘Override’ the PDF Page setup Override dialogue pops up, which contains a simplified subset of the usual Plotting options.
The layout and magnifying glass Icon brings up the Plot Preview window – so you can check out how your PDF will look, before you plot it.
The printer with Lighting strike and check box pops up the PDF Export options dialogue.
This dialogue allows you to control whether your Layer information is included in the PDF and how the lines merge on plotting. You can also override the precision of the Vector’s in the PDF file here.
The two options I use most frequently are the default file path Location and the Type.
The Default File path Location saves you having to tour around your folder structure each time you Export a PDF.
The Type drop down gives you the choice of Single-sheet or Multi-sheet PDF’s. The Single-sheet option will create one PDF per layout. The Multi-sheet option will create one PDF which contains all your layouts.
Back to the Save as PDF Dialogue box
If you don’t remember to set these options before you hit ‘Export’ – don’t worry. The same set of tools is available to you inside the ‘Save as PDF Dialogue.
The ‘Current Settings’ panel gives you some feedback on where you are in the process. You can click the options button to bring up the ‘Export to PDF’ dialogue.
You also have the option to adjust whether you want to export the current layout, or all layouts in the file, and you can override the plot settings from here as well.
Finally, there are a couple of options that are not available elsewhere – you can choose whether to add a plot stamp to your PDF file, and you can choose whether you want to see your resulting PDF in Adobe reader when the job is done.
What will you do with all that time you saved?
Although plotting your PDF’s gives you a great deal of control over the final output, Exporting your PDF’s is quicker and is simple to set up and use. So what will you do with all that time you saved? Shh, I won’t mention it to your Boss!
Further reading:
You can find out more about the EXPORTPDF command in the AutoCAD 2011 Online help.
There is an AutoCAD Printing and plotting thread on the Autodesk discussion groups.
About the CAD Setter Out.
Paul Munford is a Joinery draughtsman (a ‘Setter Out’) for Beck Interiors, a UK based international Interior Fit out contactor which specializes in Museum Interiors.
Paul uses AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor to create manufacturing ‘Workshop’ drawings day in – day out.
In his spare time Paul writes the ‘CAD Setter Out’ Blog and wishes he got out more.
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Thank you for the post Paul.
-Shaan
-Shaan