If AutoCAD shows the below dialog click “Yes” to close the dialog.įinally close the “Page Setup Manager” dialog by clicking “Close”. Uncheck the “Show results in viewer” option.Ĭlose the “PDF Options” dialog by clicking “OK” and click “OK” again to close the “Changes to a Printer Configuration File” dialog.Ĭlick “OK” once more to close the “Page Setup” dialog. Next click “PDF Options” to open the “PDF Options” dialog. Select “Arch B landscape” and click “Modify…” to open the “Page Setup” dialog again. Open the “Page Setup Manager” dialog again (right mouse click on the “Layout” tab and choose “Page Setup Manager”).
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To avoid problems its good practice to disable the option to open printed PDF files by default.ĪutoCAD will remember this setting the next time you use our script again so this step needs to be applied only once. Some PDF viewers can’t handle more than 20 PDF files at once. As you might know already, AutoCAD will open a PDF file in the associated PDF reader as soon as it’s done printing. Now your almost ready to use our script for the first time. Make sure you choose the “AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3” printer/plotter in your page setup.Īdjust the scale of the current page “viewport” Our script only works with the “AutoCAD PDF (High Quality Print).pc3” printer/plotter selected. Ĭhoose paper size and other settings as you prefer. In this example we name our new Layout “Arch B landscape”.
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For AutoCAD paperspace/layout units in inches download “layers2PDF_inches.lsp”. For AutoCAD paperspace/layout units in millimeters download “layers2PDF.lsp”. This tutorials requires one visual lisp script for AutoCAD and one javascript for Photoshop. Doing so manually requires a lot of effort but by using two scripts we’ve created it all can be done with a few mouse clicks. Next, rasterize all PDF files into Photoshop files and finally merge all Photoshop files together. To only way to preserve AutoCAD layers in Photoshop is to print or export each AutoCAD layer into a separate PDF file. After a lot of internet searching it was clear to us that there isn’t a simple, ready to go, solution for this. However, by doing so all layers from the original AutoCAD file will be merged together into a single layer in Photoshop. Converting AutoCAD files into Photoshop files is not very complicated, a simple PDF export from AutoCAD is all that it takes. We’ve been searching for a while for a simple way to convert AutoCAD drawings into Photoshop files preserving all layers.
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