ehumble Posted March 4, 2024 Share Posted March 4, 2024 Is there a way to covert an imported PDF to lines so that you can dimension it and also delete unwanted items in the PDF? Thank you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted March 4, 2024 Share Posted March 4, 2024 Do a web search for PDF to Vector Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehumble Posted March 4, 2024 Author Share Posted March 4, 2024 Ok and once its a vector file can I import it into Chief to make the edits? How do I do that? I can't seem to find a way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gawdzira Posted March 4, 2024 Share Posted March 4, 2024 What are you trying to do? If you are making a floor plan, just trace the PDF after importing and scaling. It will be faster than cleaning up CADD lines. If they are CADD details, that is another story and case dependent based on what you have for images. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehumble Posted March 4, 2024 Author Share Posted March 4, 2024 I need to be able to use the PDF as is but clean it up to delete notes and dimensions for furniture layouts. I was hoping there was a way to do this without redrawing it because that is time consuming. Importing a CAD drawing works great for this but we mostly get PDF's and don't always have access to the CAD drawings so wondering if there is a way to easily clean up a PDF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DBCooper Posted March 4, 2024 Share Posted March 4, 2024 I would look for one of the free apps that can convert a pdf to DXF or DWG. Then you can import it and modify it however you like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ehumble Posted March 4, 2024 Author Share Posted March 4, 2024 Yes thank you that works. I was hoping to not convert it but this will do! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bintrat Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 (edited) Yesterday I spent the whole day looking for a similar topic. Thanks for the advice - converting to DWG helped. By the way, I found a great online converter PDF Guru https://www.pinterest.com/pdf_guru/ and it handles this task perfectly. Honestly, I’ve always been skeptical about online tools, but after trying this one, I changed my mind. It turned out to be really simple and high-quality. Edited October 25 by bintrat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greg_NY61 Posted October 11 Share Posted October 11 You can try inkscape it's free Download Link Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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