If you need to edit PDF in CAD software such as scale, rotate, etc. it, you can use the command line application PDF to DWG Converter to help you for it is able to convert PDF document to DWG or DXF format file and supports to set different parameters for the target file.
PDF to DWG Converter is a stand-alone application which doesn’t need any other CAD or PDF programs installed on your computer. But if you want to browse the input PDF document or output CAD drawings, PDF and CAD software are necessary. The command line application supports AutoCAD 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2000, R14 etc. versions. So you can create the CAD files which suites for different versions of CAD program on your computer.
For using the command line application, you can download the evaluation version at https://www.verydoc.com/pdf2dwg.zip for experiencing. There is no need to install PDF to DWG Converter on your computer because it is a ZIP file and you just need to unzip to some disk and then the executable file pdf2dwg.exe which is the called program to edit PDF in CAD software is runnable at once.
1. Please open MS-DOS prompt window at first in which you are allowed to input the command line. There are two ways here to open the prompt window and you can use any one of them. You can also take your own way of course. The first one is to click “Start”—“Run” to open “Run” dialog box in which please input “cmd” in “Open” combo box and click “OK” button. The second one is to press “Window”+ “R” combination for opening “Run” dialog box.
2. To input the command line in MS-DOS prompt window is the most important step for editing PDF in CAD software. You can use different commands for editing the input PDF files freely. Please see the following command line sample:
pdf2dwg.exe -page 3 –rotate 90 –xscale 1.8 C:\test.pdf C:\out.dwg
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pdf2dwg.exe stands for the called program. The path of it must be used in the command line for accurately calling the called program.
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-page 3 is for extracting the third page of PDF to CAD drawing. If you change the number as “0”, it means to extract all pages.
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–rotate 90 is to rotate the PDF document by 90 degree. You can change the degree from 0-360.
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–xscale 1.8 is for setting scaling factor for PDF document in X-direction. So the command “-yscale” is for scaling a factor for PDF document in Y-direction.
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C:\test.pdf stands for the path of source file.
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C:\out.dwg stands for the name of target file.
3. Please click “Enter” button to edit PDF in CAD software at last and you can find the target file in the specified location to check it whether it is perfect enough. If you want to buy PDF to DWG Converter, please enter the homepage of it at https://www.verydoc.com/pdf-to-dwg-dxf.html and there are two kinds of licenses developed of server and developer. You can choose any one according to your requirements.