CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
19 April 2012
Product News
GstarCAD Offers Convenience for Reusing PDF-based CAD Drawings
Designers are always troubled with bringing vector PDF based on CAD drawings into their engineering environment for various purposes, including viewing, plotting, editing, etc., since most CAD systems do not support PDF as an input format or could not convert accurately.
To help customers save valuable time and improve conversion quality, GstarCAD2012 incorporates to pdf2cad functionality named as PDFtoDXF for converting vector PDF –based on CAD drawings into DXF files. Users can also save DXF files as DWG format. By implementing this function, users will easily extract the vector geometry from a PDF file to a CAD oriented file format, avoiding redrawing the graphics from scratch or using scanned printouts of PDF to trace or apply raster-to-vector software on.
Pdf2cad is a remarkable plug-in developed by Visual Integrity, enabling users to convert PDF based CAD drawings to their equivalent in a few seconds. Different elements, such as lines, text and images can be reproduced accurately with this converter in DXF format. Besides, batch conversion is also approachable in this converter and also users can configure several options according to their needs.
Users can get access to this plug-in from the menu of Express>PDFtoDXF and it is available in various language versions of GstarCAD2012, greatly expanding the scope of the applicability of users for converting PDF drawings directly into DXF files. To experience this great converter, users can download GstarCAD2012 for free at: http://www.gstarcad.net/download.php?for=1
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