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Bringing PDFs into AutoCAD 6 Oct, 2009 By: Circles & Lines tutorial: Two of the biggest crowd-pleasers in AutoCAD 2010 are its new PDF import and underlay features. As I travel around introducing AutoCAD 2010 to the user community, I've observed that the biggest crowd-pleasers by far have been the new PDF features in this latest version. Although we've been able to export AutoCAD drawing files to PDF for a while now, we haven't had the ability to bring those PDF files back into AutoCAD. Finally, with AutoCAD 2010, this top AUGI wish list item as been granted. The PDF file actually becomes an underlay when brought into AutoCAD.

Move the buttons anywhere you want on the screen and set the level of transparency.

You can clip the underlay, snap to it, control layer display, etc. If you are using the Ribbon -- simply go to the Attach option of the Insert tab to import the PDF or you can key in the new Attach command. With this command you'll find the option of inserting a PDF file as an underlay.

Use the Attach command to insert your PDF file. After selecting the proper PDF file, you'll need to specify things such as the insertion point and scale factor as seen in the figure.

You also can choose which layouts you want to insert. Specify the scale, insertion point and layouts for your PDF. As mentioned, a PDF file will be brought into AutoCAD as an underlay, much as DWF and DGN files. Unfortunately there's no way to convert a PDF file to an AutoCAD object yet -- perhaps that's something we'll see in the future. Because you can snap to the objects in the PDF file, you at least can recreate the objects by tracing over them. Note, however, that you can snap to objects only in PDF files that were made using AutoCAD 2010. For all of you who have switched the user interface back to AutoCAD Classic (not the Ribbon), you'll really be missing out here.

If you have the Ribbon enabled and you select a PDF file, the Ribbon automatically changes to a new tab based entirely on your PDF, shown in the figure below. I absolutely love this feature! The context-sensitive Ribbon menu in AutoCAD 2010 automatically switches to PDF Underlay when a PDF underlay is inserted. This new Ribbon tab shows us everything we can do with our new PDF underlay, making it easier on us to figure out. Let's start with clipping our PDF.

Select Create Clipping Boundary from the Ribbon and pick the area you want to use to clip your PDF underlay. This process works much the same as ImageClip, DWFClip, etc. For those of you still rebelling against the Ribbon, you can use the new Clip command. The clipped area has a dynamic boundary that can be modified easily with the grips as shown in the figure below. You also can invert the clip just as you can with xrefs so that the inside is clipped rather than the outside. To remove the clipping boundary, select Remove Clipping from the ribbon -- it just doesn't get much easier than that. Easily modify the clipped PDF using grips.