[Equest-users] PDF to CAD converter suggestion

[Philip Kennedy]

We use progeCAD pro instead of the autodesk products, it comes with an
inbuilt pdf converter which works very well.



Regards Philip



Philip Kennedy

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Kiltech Inc

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*From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Paul Riemer
*Sent:* Friday, August 02, 2013 11:01 AM
*To:* 'R B'; Matthew Baron
*Cc:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
*Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] PDF to CAD converter suggestion



Our IS staff just equipped us with Print2CAD. I have not tried it yet but I
trust our IS staff to at least share the name and website :

http://www.backtocad.com/engl/engl-pdf-dwg.html



*Paul Riemer, PE, LEED AP BD+C*

*DUNHAM*



*From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [
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*On Behalf Of *R B
*Sent:* Friday, August 02, 2013 9:58 AM
*To:* Matthew Baron
*Cc:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
*Subject:* Re: [Equest-users] PDF to CAD converter suggestion



I have used AnyPDFtoDWGConvertor. Allows about 30 free conversions.

-Rohini



On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Matthew Baron <mbaron at wendelcompanies.com>
wrote:

Hi,

The link below is for a free service that will convert vector pdfs (not
raster scans) to .dwg files. I have used this several times and very
pleased. You upload the pdf to the site and they email you back the .dwg
file. I believe it is the same as the Able2Extract 8, but online you can do
as many files as you need but I think its limited on file size.

http://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/



Thanks,

Matthew J. Baron

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*From:* equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org [mailto:
equest-users-bounces at lists.onebuilding.org] *On Behalf Of *Brian Fountain
*Sent:* Friday, August 02, 2013 10:44 AM
*To:* equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
*Subject:* [Equest-users] PDF to CAD converter suggestion



With summer vacations in full swing, I went looking for the CAD drawings
for my latest project just after my client’s point of contact went away.
So, I was looking for PDF to CAD converters as I did have a .PDF set of the
drawings.



I ended up trying 3 “trial” converters and had success with 1:



I started with the trial version of PDF2DXF2012.  On my machine, the
installation did not seem to work and the trial seems to only give you a
viewer rather than the actual .dxf file so I was not able to fully test
this converter and didn’t have time to keep playing.



Next was VectPDF – this tool seems to be a plug in with AutoCAD allowing
you to make the conversion from within AutoCAD.  Sounds neat but I am not
an AutoCAD user so that did not help my situation.



The third converter I was successful with was Able2Extract 8.  The trial is
limited to 7 days and only 3 sheets per conversion but it installed and
outputs either a .dxf or .dwg (with other options as well – Excel, Word &
Powerpoint).  I selected the .dxf and was able to open the resulting file
into eQUEST  to trace my model custom footprint and zoning.  There are
probably other good tools out there but I was pleased to find one that
worked with limited fuss and let me get on with my model.  The link for
Able2Extract is investintech.com <http://www.investintech.com/> (Note – I
am not affiliated with the company, just found the tool useful for what we
do!)  The cost of the software is $100 or $35 for a  30-day subscription.



Cheers,

Brian


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