John,
You know...I'm new to almost all of this software.
That sounds like it would work...
basically right now I've got the image imported and if I adjust to 1/16"
scale it's pretty damn close.
So I'll use it like that for the underlay.
I have a question though....
I imported to level one, but i can't see the image in my other levels.
I've tried all the standard VP settings...underlay-level 1 for example...but
still can't see the jpeg in other levels
Any thoughts???
"John B" wrote in message
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Why didn't you just open the PDF in Photoshop, adjust the scale if
necesarry, and save to jpg.?
"david" wrote in message
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Best I could do was to print the PDF
Scan the printed PDF as a TIF
Open the TIF in photoshop
Save the TIF as a JPEG
Import and check scale
Do the calculation to adjust scale
Adjust print settings
Reprint, rescan, reTIF > JPEG
Reimport
"J F" wrote in message
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david wrote:
> Can I print them, then scan them to some usable format to import into
> Revit?
>
>
>
> "david" wrote in message
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> Did I mention my desperation for help? 🙂
> I just landed a contract to produce some kind of rendered output by
> Tuesday
> AM of a development. All I have access to this weekend is a few PDFs of
> ACAD
> plans and elevations.
>
> How can I use these?
>
>
>
> "david" wrote in message
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> Can I import a PDF into Revit to use as an underlay?
>
> If not, can I import it into ACAD and then somehow (not much of an CAD
> jockey) make it into a DWG to send to Revit?
I'm not sure you will have much luck getting a scalable result, but you
could try exporting the pdf as a jpg from Acrobat. You could get that to
scale in AutoCAD but I don't think the jpg file will show up when you
import the dwg into Revit. You really aren't ever going to get anything
you can properly trace in Revit from a pdf, so it might be better to
just jump in and start building it in Revit from scratch. Hopefully
there are dimensions in the pdf's.
