Converting DWG to PDF and DWG to Image

Anonymous — Thu, 12 May 2016 05:09:42 GMT

Dear Wise Men,

I'm developing a software system that keeps and manages various files using C#. I need to convert customer input files to PDF for Report Viewer and Images for Image Preview. In there , Autocad files type also includes. Now I have a difficulty that I cannot convert the Autodcad file type to PDF , and Image too. If you have good source or idea, I'd like to request to share me.

Thank all
Sincerely
Thiha Soe Htet
Myanmar

Re: Converting DWG to PDF and DWG to Image

norman.yuan — Thu, 12 May 2016 13:45:09 GMT

The possible solution(s) would depend on what the system you are developing is, how it works.

Since you post in this forum of AutoCAD using/programming, the most likely solution could be using AutoCAD API (.NET or COM) to print drawing into PDF/Dwfx/JPG/PNG. In this case, you need to have AutoCAD installed and running to execute your drawing printing plug-in application. You can find quite some articles/code examples of AutoCAD printing on the Internet, if you do have enough knowledge of AutoCAD programming (otherwise, it would be technically challenged).

Because your goal is to manage drawing document and provide user a image (PDF, PNG...) to view the visual content in drawing file without having to have AutoCAD, you might want to look into Autodesk's View/Data cloud service

https://developer.autodesk.com/api/view-and-data-api/

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