Good afternoon/evening,
I currectly have 5 PDFs of drawings that were create 10-14 years ago. Hence, I do not have accress to the original drawings.
In the past I was able to convert PDFs to pngs and load them into a drawing. Currently, I cannot get Adobe to open my pngs and so I tried to window the area, and pastespecial into AutoCAD 2015 Electrical. I got one loaded before AutoCAD crashed. When I recovered the drawing, the PDF didn't recover, I had a large White" sheet of nothing loaded into my drawing. I am also having trouble trying to get the other PDFs copied. The system tells me it is trying to converet text in the pdfs and when I past, I end up with a "Very" large window and just some of the text. None of the picture I need so I can trace the image. Does anyone have any suggestions of what I am doing wrong and how to getting my settings changed so that when I paste, I am given the option of inserting the image as OLE instead of text.
I am about to reboot my computer hoping that will reset some of the settings.
HD
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If you open your External Reference Manager, the top left by default shows the Attach DWG icon. If you select the pulldown menu next to that, you will see an option for Attach PDF. This is a relatively new feature, I believe 2013 or 2014? If you have any solid reference to dimension, scale the PDF off of that dimension. Since I work in the AEC industry, I usually have a door to scale off of. They're usually 3'0". If you're not in AEC, has your titleblock changed at all? Can you scale the PDF using the reference option and define 2 points on your titleblock?
To all that responded.
1) I can't share the PDFs as I do not have permission to let others view those sheets. The documents I am working with, are controlled drawings.
2) I appreciate the answers provided. ToianDN has provided a new ACAD Tips site that has some very good lessons that I can further my knowledge with and smbrennan85 has shown me that my xref table has more to offer. I thank you both and I have my solution.
HD