Exporting from CAD to PDF

[Anonymous]

Hi All,

I am a University Student studying Techncial Theatre: We Use AutoCAD 2010 at University and because of submission stipulation we have to submit the dwg file as a 2010 version.

I have recently been having an issue when exporting drawings from CAD to PDF.

Attached below are two screenshots one is from CAD the other is the exported PDF.

I have searched best I can for an answer and tried multiple ways to find a solution. Even tracing around the image in CAD with the Line tool comes to a problem.

I'm stuck and seriously concerned... does anyone know if this is a common problem or if its a setting or something that has caused this to happen?

Many Thanks!

Anthony <(")

[pendean]

Show us your DWG file.

[Anonymous]

Hi Pendean thank you very much for trying to help!

Should be attached.

[Alfred.NESWADBA]

Hi,

what I can see from your drawing content: using polylines for all the closed contours would be the better choice then single arcs and lines.

And when you say

>> Exporting from CAD to PDF

the better choice would be to use layout for plotting (a title block is nothing that should be placed on the modelspace) and instead of exporting the drawing use command _PLOT and use the "DWG to PDF.pc3" as plotter-setting.

HTH, - alfred -

[pendean]

I can reproduce your problem in AutoCAD2011 and newer versions with the built-in dwg2pdf drivers, but not with any free third party pdf driver. Might be time for you all to go that route.

Alfred offers some good advice to really solve the problem: you all also seem to shy away from making blocks too for some reason.