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PDF Generation in Inventor

J.Oye — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:46:06 GMT

I have a customer that is trying to export his .idw files to pdf and up until a couple weeks ago this took a matter of seconds to generate, now he says it takes close to 10 minutes to generate. Anyone care to jump in and give me a solution to the issue?

Re: PDF Generation in Inventor

blair — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:21:46 GMT

Odd, I just did a 4 sheet drawings export to PDF inside IV and it took 4sec.

Check the default DPI and try to a different folder. Something like the local Downloads folder.

A good old reboot of the system, as well. You could have a Windows SP that requires a restart to finish the install.

Re: PDF Generation in Inventor

J.Oye — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:33:37 GMT

They are using vault so my assumption is it has something to do with it maybe when they did a service pack upgrade or something. They sent me their .idw drawing and I as well was able to generate a pdf file locally on my machine in seconds.

Re: PDF Generation in Inventor

philip1009 — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 20:14:19 GMT

Are they doing the export via Inventor or Vault? You may have to go to another forum if it's the latter. If it's Inventor, is the export done via the built in export tool, or is it through the printer function? If it's done with the printer function, which pdf printer are you using?

Re: PDF Generation in Inventor

johnsonshiue — Sat, 01 Dec 2018 01:12:00 GMT

Hi! Is it possible they are using different PDF export options than the default ones? For example, do they select "All Sheets" and also very high DPI value? The default is "Current Sheet" at 400 DPI.

Many thanks!

Re: PDF Generation in Inventor

leowarren34 — Sun, 02 Dec 2018 20:07:44 GMT

I occassionally face that issue if I leave my WS on overnight, just a simple on/off fixes it, I reckon just clearing out the memory helps.