<div dir="ltr"><div>I have used AnyPDFtoDWGConvertor. Allows about 30 free conversions.</div><div>-Rohini</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 9:54 AM, Matthew Baron <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mbaron@wendelcompanies.com" target="_blank">mbaron@wendelcompanies.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"">Hi,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"">The link below is for a free service that will convert vector pdfs (not raster scans) to .dwg files. I have used this several times and very pleased. You upload the pdf to the
site and they email you back the .dwg file. I believe it is the same as the Able2Extract 8, but online you can do as many files as you need but I think its limited on file size.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/" target="_blank">http://www.convertpdftoautocad.com/</a><u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book","sans-serif"">Matthew J. Baron<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";font-size:10pt"> <a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Brian Fountain<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Friday, August 02, 2013 10:44 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org</a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] PDF to CAD converter suggestion<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">With summer vacations in full swing, I went looking for the CAD drawings for my latest project just after my client’s point of contact went away. So, I was looking for PDF to CAD converters as I did have a .PDF set of
the drawings.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I ended up trying 3 “trial” converters and had success with 1:<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">I started with the trial version of PDF2DXF2012. On my machine, the installation did not seem to work and the trial seems to only give you a viewer rather than the actual .dxf file so I was not able to fully test this
converter and didn’t have time to keep playing.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Next was VectPDF – this tool seems to be a plug in with AutoCAD allowing you to make the conversion from within AutoCAD. Sounds neat but I am not an AutoCAD user so that did not help my situation.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The third converter I was successful with was Able2Extract 8. The trial is limited to 7 days and only 3 sheets per conversion but it installed and outputs either a .dxf or .dwg (with other options as well – Excel, Word
& Powerpoint). I selected the .dxf and was able to open the resulting file into eQUEST to trace my model custom footprint and zoning. There are probably other good tools out there but I was pleased to find one that worked with limited fuss and let me get
on with my model. The link for Able2Extract is <a href="http://www.investintech.com/" target="_blank">
investintech.com</a> (Note – I am not affiliated with the company, just found the tool useful for what we do!) The cost of the software is $100 or $35 for a 30-day subscription.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Cheers,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">Brian<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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