.DWF Writer. . .

[TerribleTim]

Not sure where this goes, feel free to move it.

Here's the dealio. . .
I got a .PDF instead of the .DWG I asked for. So in my infinite wisdom, I fired up the new .DWF Writer and made a .DWF out of it so I could insert it into AutoCAD and snap away! Pretty smart, huh? I thought so too! Well, when I got it into AutoCAD it had no intelligence (no snaps). WTF? I thought that's what the whole idea was! Anyone got some advice? Did I miss a setting somewhere? Is my .DWF Writer smarter than me?

[Arben.Allaraj]

Not sure where this goes, feel free to move it.

Here's the dealio. . .
I got a .PDF instead of the .DWG I asked for. So in my infinite wisdom, I fired up the new .DWF Writer and made a .DWF out of it so I could insert it into AutoCAD and snap away! Pretty smart, huh? I thought so too! Well, when I got it into AutoCAD it had no intelligence (no snaps). WTF? I thought that's what the whole idea was! Anyone got some advice? Did I miss a setting somewhere? Is my .DWF Writer smarter than me?

DWF writer convert PDF to DWF .
Install correctly the "DWF Writer" Windows driver, display your PDF file in Acrobat Reader and print it to the DWFwriter "printer.
Am I clear in your question?

[cadtag]

That's a pretty nice idea, and one way to get a PDF background in Acad. Of course it's a picture of a picture of a drawing, so not being able to snap to vectors that dont' exist makes sense. but it still sounds simpler that buying Acrobat Pro and saving the PDF out to TIFF.

[jpaulsen]

You probably already checked this but make sure DWFOSNAP is set to 1.

The ability to snap to a DWF created from a PDF depends on the PDF file. I plotted a PDF from AutoCAD using Cute PDF, then plotted the PDF to a DWF using Autodesk DWF Writer for 2D. I was able to snap to endpoints of the DWF underlay.

I scanned the same image to a PDF, then plotted to DWF and was not able to snap to the underlay.

[tmoser]

Their is a company that makes software - that you can use to convert PDF to DWF
http://www.autodwg.com/pdf-to-dwg-converter/

If you have adobe illustrator I think you can use that too and do a save as dwf.

[TerribleTim]

Thanks for the info guys. My guess is the .pdf came from a scan.