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Anonymous
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Seperate server application\ destop application for DWG to PDF batch plotting

Hi Community, 

 

I am new to the ACAD management game but I study. Some of my Autocad users never really open autocad but only for converting DWG to PDF. The heavy users could benifit from exporting that DWG to PDF plotting processing to another machine or another application on their machine. Does anyone have some insight on a server application or desktop application which would convert DWG to PDF. 

 

I have found this server application but it is not a fully packaged solution. It requires some additional C#. Which might end up being the true solution but... 

http://www.activepdf.com/products/cadconverter

 

 

I am curious about how some other firms do this. 

 

Thank you, 

Nicholas

Anonymous
en respuesta a: Anonymous

http://examples.activepdf.com/CADConverter/2015/CAD_to_PDF_conversion_with_settings.cs

I found this from this website called activepdf which does this. Is anyone familiar with this product. 

 

/ Copyright (c) 2016 ActivePDF, Inc.
// ActivePDF CADConverter 2015
// Example created 05/03/16

using System;

// Make sure to add the ActivePDF product .NET DLL(s) to your application.
// .NET DLL(s) are typically found in the products 'bin' folder.

class Examples
{
public static void Example()
{
string cadXML;
string strPath;
DCDK.Results.DocConverterResult results;

strPath = System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory;

// Instantiate Object
APDocConverter.DocConverter oDC = new APDocConverter.DocConverter();

// Settings specific to CAD conversions
APDocConverter.CADConverter.CADConverter oCAD = new APDocConverter.CADConverter.CADConverter();

// Options available for CAD conversions
// Options that are 'NotSet' use the setting from the configuation manager
oCAD.ASCIIHexEncoding = false;
oCAD.Color = APDocConverter.CADConverter.ColorMode.NotSet;
oCAD.EmbedFonts = APDocConverter.CADConverter.EmbedFontsOptions.NotSet;
oCAD.ExportLayers = APDocConverter.CADConverter.LayersOptions.NotSet;
oCAD.ExportLayouts = APDocConverter.CADConverter.LayoutsOptions.NotSet;
oCAD.FlateCompression = false;
oCAD.HatchToBitmapDPI = 150;
oCAD.HiddenLineRemoval = false;
oCAD.Lineweight = APDocConverter.CADConverter.LineweightOptions.NotSet;
oCAD.OtherHatchesSettings = APDocConverter.CADConverter.OtherHatchOptions.NotSet;
oCAD.PlotStyleTableName = "";
oCAD.SHXTextAsGeometry = false;
oCAD.SimpleGeometryOptimization = false;
oCAD.SolidHatchesSettings = APDocConverter.CADConverter.SolidHatchOptions.NotSet;
oCAD.TrueTypeAsGeometry = false;
oCAD.ZoomToExtents = true;

// Page size is only set if ZoomToExtents is true
oCAD.SetExtentsPageSize(210, 297);

// Convert the settings to XML and send it to DocConverter
cadXML = oCAD.Serialize();
oDC.SetAddonOptions(cadXML);
oCAD = null;

// Set the amount of time before a request will time out
oDC.TimeoutSpan = new TimeSpan(0, 0, 40);

// Enable extra logging (logging should only be used while troubleshooting)
// C:\ProgramData\activePDF\Logs\
oDC.Debug = true;

// Convert the file to PDF
// If the output parameter is not used the created PDF will use
// the input string substituting the filename extension to 'pdf'
results = oDC.ConvertToPDF(strPath + "sample.dwg", strPath + "new.pdf");
if (results.DocConverterStatus != DCDK.Results.DocConverterStatus.Success)
{
ErrorHandler("ConvertToPDF", results, results.DocConverterStatus.ToString());
}

// Release Object
oDC = null;

// Process Complete
WriteResults("Done!");
}

// Error Handling
public static void ErrorHandler(string strMethod, ADK.Results.Result results, string errorStatus)
{
WriteResults("Error with " + strMethod);
WriteResults(errorStatus);
WriteResults(results.Details);
if (results.Origin.Function != strMethod)
{
WriteResults(results.Origin.Class + "." + results.Origin.Function);
}
if (results.ResultException != null)
{
// To view the stack trace on an exception uncomment the line below
//WriteResults(results.ResultException.StackTrace);
}
Environment.Exit(1);
}

// Write output data
public static void WriteResults(string content)
{
// Choose where to write out results

// Debug output
//System.Diagnostics.Debug.WriteLine("ActivePDF: * " + content);

// Console
Console.WriteLine(content);

// Log file
//using (System.IO.TextWriter writer = new System.IO.StreamWriter(System.AppDomain.CurrentDomain.BaseDirectory + "application.log", true))
//{
// writer.WriteLine("[" + DateTime.Now.ToString("MM/dd/yyyy HH:mm:ss") + "]: => " + content);
//}
}
}