![]() The process of updates is a few steps, but they are always the same and don’t usually require adjustments (unless you make the building bigger and have to change the viewports for example) You have to change your notation of course if relevant to the change. Go in CAD and update references in one command to replace the pdf image. Revisions: Update the SU file and save, Open LO and refresh, print by the same process and the pdf is overwritten in the folder. Of course this step would have to be repeated if you need it changed. This gives me vector edges to snap to if needed, behind the pdf image. ![]() Sometimes I copy the pdf reference to another page, bind it, and explode the pdf. All my subsequent work goes on layers on top of the pdf image. ![]() ![]() I like “fog” sometimes so that can’t be transparent, but I don’t know why transparency is required. Transparent background is according to the style you used in SketchUp. The reference may need to be positioned but that is saved by PC as well, so future updates go exactly in the same place. (like XREFs it could be bound to the file eventually if needed. This is a reference to the pdf file which I have saved in a specific folder. (if you do scale or crop, the PC reference remembers the scaling and crop). It comes in PC at the right scale, no scaling to do. PowerCADD is all paper space so you want to reference as papers space to ACAD. A system routine that I set up to be in the print dialog will ebsure each LO page is exported in a separate pdf file with a discrete name. I know some equivalent has to be done in Windows for the Mac print to pdf. I don’t have to arrange different drawings in CAD–it’s the whole sheet. I use the same size sheet as in CAD so all the elevations, or whatever is to be on that sheet, are on one LayOut “page”. This is where you set the scale if the template does not already have the viewports at scale. Again a layout template can be made that already has references scenes by name, and the viewports will need adjusting, but any way you set it up is pretty fast for this part. Often a template can be used (I do) that is set up to place the model such that scenes are already there for the elevations and you can adjust each for new projects with different size buildings. My way is in Mac and PowerCADD but it seems there could be workflow created in Windows. You can assemble a PDF set of drawings where some sheets came from LO and others from PC and it all still goes together.Ĭould you describe in more detail what you suggested?Īs I mentioned. One thing I spent time doing was replicating my PowerCADD title block and stationery in Layout so the output looks the same. What I have found for PC is that Hybrid setup in LO, exported/printed to PDF, then imported to PC can produce full hybrid results there with all the look of raster, plus accurate vectored lines to snap dimension tools to. I’d like to know if the ACAD users here can say if they’re using that feature for this workflow, i.e. DWG can support raster images these days, but unfortunately, PowerCADD’s DWG translator doesn’t support that feature (even though the program itself has always supported raster images and can handle it). Please note that you cannot control resolution/quality for the direct JPGOUT, PNGOUT and similar commands.In the past year or so I’ve increasingly moved toward using Layout for some projects and drawings, and in other cases, just use Layout as a portal to my 2D drafting app (I’m using the same stuff as but I think he’s got it even better automated than I). ![]() And you can also use standard AutoCAD batch plot operations for these exports. All standard print settings (line weights, plot styles.) will apply. You can also export DWGs to other raster formats - CALS, JPG/JPEG, BMP, PNG, TGA, PCX. Under Device settings you can set the color depth (for color formats) - fewer colors means smaller files. In higher AutoCAD versions you can use directly pixels so you don't need to recalculate page size values. 100 dpi) so to get 2000 pixel resolution you will have to set 2000/100 = 20 inches page size. The DPI (dots-per-inch) value is usually fixed (e.g. You can create a custom "paper" size for this "printer" - increase this paper size to achieve higher resolution (more pixels in the resulting raster file). Raster image size is unitless (in pixels, not inches or mm) - to increase resolution of the raster file (in pixels) set a "larger paper size". for the TIFF format: use This Computer, select Raster File Formats (as Manufacturer) and under Model select TIFF (or PNG, JPG.). Use the Add-a-Plotter wizard ( PLOTTERMANAGER) to add a raster "printer" - eg. How to export an AutoCAD DWG drawing to a hi-res raster file (e.g. ![]()
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