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Have been sent a drawing in .dwg format, how can I convert to PDF to view / print?
Its an autocad file. I can do it for you at work tomorrow if you want?
I take it you don't have autocad...
illustrator might be able to handle it
get a dwg viewer file otherwise send as David says
if you want to email it to me I can do it, prob in the next hour.
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You'll get a viewer on autodesks website which will let you print and do minor mark ups
if you havent already got it sorted let me know, i have autocad open now.
Thanks guys have managed to find somewhere to print it for me locally so e mailed them can collect tomorrow.
google autocad ws.
It allows you to open a .dwg file in browser, then view/edit/print.
I'm not sure if it will convert to pdf, but tbh, its probably not necesary if you use this.
If you must convert it, pretty sure draftsight does that.
However, you'll need to download and install it. But it is free.
good luck, loum
For <anyones> future reference, download 'cute Pdf'. It appears as a printer option when you go to print / plot from most applications, including autocad, which then prints the image, drawing etc to a .Pdf format file.
It's free and does not clog up the system with pop ups like other free programs.
+1 for CutePDF
Draftsight might be worth a look if you are going to be getting frequent files to print.
It's a free CAD program.
+1 for draftsight
We use it for the "Non CAD" engineers to view CAD files and drawings
Quite often they need to look at components or assemblies but would get hideously lost with a full CAD Package.
It works well and is free 😉
