PDF3D + 2D

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I want to send to our factory 3D Pdfs but I also need the 2D. Is there any way to add the 2D as 2nd page in the 3DPDF Inventor 2017 generates?

Thanks.

[frederic.vandenplas]

Of course you can merge PDF files after conversion. There is a great free pdf library available called itextsharp if you do a Google search you can find that easily. If you need more code I'll provide a .Net solution tomorrow. I don't see any possibility within inventor api

[Anonymous]

Hi, thanks for your answer.

Can you help me with the .NET code? 

[frederic.vandenplas]

@Anonymous attached you can find a simple program that merges pdf files

you can adapt it the way you want, if you need any help let me know

[MechMachineMan]

Hi @frederic.vandenplas,

Do you know, is it possible to use the iTextSharp.dll through vba? I'm looking to do something similar and just use an excel file to load the files to merge, then run a sub to merge them in the specified order.

[frederic.vandenplas]

@MechMachineMan no, i don't think you can use that for vba because it is written to use it in .NET environment. (did not look further, maybe there are other possibilities that i'm not aware of)

But you can pass parameters to a console application, attached you can find a simple example

start cmd and type path_to_exe_file\ConsoleApplication1.exe string1 string2

The only thing to do here is place code that accepts the parameters and execute it without any user interaction to merge your pdf files

[WilliamBellE6H7K]

please help with that