STRAT Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Hi guys This post is basically following up on the post i posted in the Autocad forum about PDF Writers. - http://www.cgarchitect.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=17;t=000006 It's a short tut for getting your Autocad drawings into Photoshop. I take no credit for this as i'm only simplifying the CADTutor tutorial i mentioned in that post, but this works an absolute treat and hopefully someone out there will find it usefull. 1) First make sure you have the appropriate plot driver installed. In Acad, from the top menu goto TOOLS > WIZARDS > ADD PLOTTER 2) click NEXT, make sure MY COMPUTER is checked, then NEXT, then highlight ADOBE and POSTSCRIPT LEVEL 1 (maybe allready highlighted) and NEXT > NEXT > NEXT > NEXT and finally FINISH. 3) load up your drawing, make sure your in model space (tilemode 1) then goto PLOT. Under the PLOT DEVICE tab scroll down through the plot drivers and near the bottom select POSTSCRIPT LEVEL 1.PC3 4) Still under the PLOT DEVICE tab, check the PLOT TO FILE (THIS PLOT ONLY) box and then enter the name and location of your .EPS file in the boxes below. 5) Then change to the PLOT SETTINGS tab, PAPER SIZE (to your liking, A3 for this example), PRINTABLE AREA : MM, select PLOT SCALE : SCALED TO FIT, then your usual choices of PLOT AREA and DRAWING ORIENTATION. Finally click OK. you can then quit Autocad. 6) Open up Photoshop and just goto FILE > OPEN, then goto the location of the .EPS file you just created and open that. An options box will then appear for your file. For A3 size 200 DPI is ok use, A2 about 300 and A1 about 400, although the bigger the file size the bigger and longer the processing time. Change MODE to RGB COLOR, then click OK. 7) To make it more usable, from the top menu goto LAYER > NEW > LAYER FROM BACKROUND (making sure white is your backround layer). Then just goto IMAGE > ADJUST > DESATURATE, and you're ready to rock and roll! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quizzy Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Thanks dude!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kaos Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 or you could plot to web, and open the resulting jpeg in photoshop!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeDaCoM Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 wow... heh amazing.. We all trying to solve the problem with free PDF writers and the solution was there in front of our eyes. heh. Thanks STRAT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted June 24, 2002 Author Share Posted June 24, 2002 Kaos - you can do that but you get the same problem as described in the above mentioned thread - the resolution is crap because you cant control the dpi, no matter how big the pixel size may be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Hi strat, My collegue used your description and he is very happy with it. regards nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted June 24, 2002 Share Posted June 24, 2002 Hi strat, My collegue used your description and he is very happy with it. regards nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted June 24, 2002 Author Share Posted June 24, 2002 Kewl! happy with it twice was he? ;p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted July 29, 2002 Share Posted July 29, 2002 loooooool... didn't see it untill now... haha rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted August 12, 2002 Share Posted August 12, 2002 hi all, tnx to cyborg - due to a link on cut-out people - I found this link: http://www.cadtutor.net/acad/acad2ki/atop/atop.html check it out , rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gen. Disorder Posted August 27, 2002 Share Posted August 27, 2002 the method i have long used is a bit more complicated than these, but i have found no other that allows for as much flexability. i actually leave teh drawing vector for as long as possible. i 'dxfout' of cad & then bring that file into corel draw. (illustrator will do the same thing, but im a corel man. so there!) once there, i have all my objects on there original layers. i can scale, change, update (sort of), control line wieghts, notes, & do most anything i could do in autocad. i can also begin the presentaiton document production process (in the case of floor plans i often never leave corel draw). or i can then export out as any kind of raster file i want at any size. programs like corel & illustrator are so much better at creating raster files, i try not to let cad ever do it if i can help it. for a large 50,000 SqFt floor plan, i can generaly convert & prep a .dwg into a .cdr in about an hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dwright Posted August 28, 2002 Share Posted August 28, 2002 You can also export to Windows Meta FIle and import in Adobe Illustrator, then save into AI or PDF and bing that to photoshop. Printing to PDF will work better. David Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted August 29, 2002 Author Share Posted August 29, 2002 Gen and David A - you're both right, there a loads of better and more effective ways of doing it, but the point of the post was to go directly from acad to photoshop. (for instance, i dont own illustrator, pdf writer, or corel draw) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matt_vinoir Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 vectorworks is really cool for this as you can save as an images file. just have to crank the res up to 10,000 dpi though! quite high i admit!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mzagorski Posted January 14, 2003 Share Posted January 14, 2003 I am running Illustrator 10. You can open a DWG file directly and can save that as a pdf, which can then be opened in photoshop. You can also open an ai. file in photoshop. Last poster mentioned 10,000 dpi? WTF... you having a laugh? Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SW03Daniel Posted February 7, 2003 Share Posted February 7, 2003 i was doing the cad to photshop transfer and i was wondering if anyone konws of how to go from cad>3dstudioViz>photoshop. if you could help me with this I'd like that very much Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted February 8, 2003 Author Share Posted February 8, 2003 you mean a cad plan in viz to show in photoshop? turn all the splines in viz to renderable splines then render out as a picture file for photoshop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 Strat: do you know how to add more segments to the exported curves and arcs? rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STRAT Posted March 8, 2003 Author Share Posted March 8, 2003 nisus - when exported curves from viz? refine them. lowering the optomisation should work too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nisus Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 ow, must have posted this in the wrong thread... I mean only when exporting acadfiles to eps... rgds nisus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arkitec Posted March 8, 2003 Share Posted March 8, 2003 the best and easiest way to get AutoCAD files to photoshop is through Adobe Distiller. Once you print to a pdf in AutoCAD, open pdf in Photoshop. Works seemlessly, Arkitec Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xgarcia Posted April 2, 2003 Share Posted April 2, 2003 also once you bring the *.eps into Illustrator you can then export as a TIFF at high resolution - keeps clean cripser than go the direct acad-photoshop route. Xavier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bio-hazard Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 you can also use the Acad200 default uncompressed tiff printer to save the plot file as a tiff mage and then open it directly in photoshop!! Havent yet decided advantages/ disadvantages over the eps method. Thanks, FE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bio-hazard Posted April 14, 2003 Share Posted April 14, 2003 sorry.. quick addition to above post.. the uncompressed tiff printer is under raster printers... Thanks, FE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kunstraum.tv Posted April 15, 2003 Share Posted April 15, 2003 i have tried nearly everything. dxf into corel/illustrator etc. it ended always in a mess ) the best way really is to write your drawings into a pdf file. it looks as you would have printed it. i´m very satisfied with that solution. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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