How do I send a CAD drawing as a .pdf file to someone who doesn't have CAD on their computer? I have never had to do this from my laptop and I cannot remember how I used to do it at work...

1/30/2006 5:42:28 PM

select plot and under plotter select plot to jpg

that will allow you to create a picture of the window or extents or whatever

and then just send them the jpg file

1/30/2006 5:48:55 PM

Unless you bought the adobe pdf writer, you can't print to pdf on your computer. Do what aficionado said.

1/30/2006 6:54:29 PM

i love having to learn all the ghetto tricks because the company only has AutoCAD 2000 LT

1/30/2006 6:57:54 PM

pretty sure there is some free software out there to make pdf's...but yeah, you can print to jpg or export to it or something like that...

1/30/2006 6:58:57 PM

^^^ Unless you have cutepdf or pdf995 or a plethora of other free pdf creation programs.

1/30/2006 7:14:54 PM

tell them to get volo view
that should allow them to open the .dwg, just won't be able to edit it

1/30/2006 7:42:53 PM