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Convert PDF to Autocad DWG with Free Online Service

Just go to this link, then click Browse, select your PDF file then enter your email address. You may have to dodge a few ads in the resulting email, but the actual DWG output is fast and the quality i…

2011-09-23 · Luke Johnson
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Create 3D PDF files from Autodesk Revit for free

The steps below show how to do it using the i-model plugin (you may also want to look at converting a 3D DWF straight to a 3D PDF): Close Revit Download and install i-model plug-in for Revit (you will…

2011-09-02 · Luke Johnson
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Free PDF Viewing programs

I have been using Foxit Reader for a number of years. It allowed me to print PDFs with a custom scale of 50%. In Australia, we often print A1 size drawings to A3 paper for in-office review, so Foxit w…

2011-08-31 · Luke Johnson
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Batch print HTML files in folder

If you want to print all the .htm or .html files in a folder, you could use the function in Internet Explorer that allows you to ‘Print All Linked Documents’: To use this, you need to have a HTML docu…

2011-02-03 · Luke Johnson
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Obtain Vector Information from PDFs using Free Tools

Sometimes you will have access to a PDF file, but not to the original DWG. Is there any way you can get the base vector data, such as lines and arcs, out of the PDF and back into a DWG? Yes, there is …

2010-11-01 · Luke Johnson
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Automatically renaming PDFs based on Revit schedule data

Let’s say you have printed a bunch of PDFs to a folder, hopefully using one of the techniques described in my previous two posts (links below), and now you want to rename them to match the data export…

2010-09-08 · Luke Johnson
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Free PDF Convert Merge Split Modify etc Tool

I traditionally use Free PDF Tools from PDFill for this kind of task, but there is a download available today at giveawayoftheday.com for Foxonic Professional 4.0.. There is still 8 hours remaining to…

2010-03-15 · Luke Johnson
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Add a URL link to your Titleblock – easy way to advertise!

No doubt you issue many PDF files to consultants, Clients, Builders and the like. Why not add a URL link to your titleblock, so that anyone receiving your PDF files can jump directly to your webpage? …

2010-03-08 · Luke Johnson