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Printed Date: 02.Oct.2026 at 02:31


Topic: Exporting to PDF
Posted By: crelph
Subject: Exporting to PDF
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 17:39
In Draftsight, why do the layers not transfer into the PDF? How would you go about this to make the layers appear?


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Connor


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Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 17:48
Guess they haven't caught up with AutoCAD.  What do you expect afterall it is a free program and they can only include so much functionality.  Maybe that's why they have a version for sale.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 18:21
If you are a student you can download for free the latest version of any number of AutoDesk programs including AutoCAD 2014.  You do know that don't you?


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: crelph
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 18:24
I do,I just have not made the time to look and download them. I appreciate the thought. But the other programs allow files to carry over to PDF.

Because right now, my company is just exporting them to illustrator then to PDF.


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Connor

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 18:28
I cannot speak to why dessault did not include the capability.

Does everyone who uses CAD in your company run Draftsight?


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: crelph
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 18:37
For the most part yes,  it is because it gets the job done. But for engineering machine parts we can only do in 2D. Making the job a little more difficult, but we just draw different views. They use Draftsight because it is free. Do you recommend any other products that are free for 3D?

Is that what you were thinking?


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Connor

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 19:01
I only know of one or two other free programs for 2D and only one for 3D modeling.

If you were doing your machine parts in 3D it would be easier to extract the 2D views you need from the one model.  There would be no mistakes as long as the 3D model was correct.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: crelph
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 19:57
Do you know the name of the products for the 2D and 3D design? Do the products do the same things or does one program do certain things that another does not?


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Connor

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 20:05
nanoCAD is free.  It too is 2D.  I'd have to search for the other 2D CAD program name as well as the 3D program.  I have a source though so it shouldn't take very long.  A few minutes at best unless I get sidetracked.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 20:18
OK...I'm back.

So as far as 2D programs go there is BabaCAD, DoubleCAD XT, FreeCAD, LibreCAD and nanoCAD as previously mentioned.

There is also one called A+ CAD 2010 but I wasn't impressed with its feature set and you'll drive yourself crazy trying to find it.

As for 3D there is the free 3D CAD modeler program available from Delcam Advanced Manufacturing Solutions called PowerSHAPE-e and now that I think of it I do believe I found one other but that one I'll have to do a bit more digging to find.

Damn I'm good.  Got it.

BRL-CAD Release 7.24.0, Archer Alpha - an open source solid modeling system.

That should be enough choices to keep you busy for a very long time.  See you in a year maybe?




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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: crelph
Date Posted: 16.Aug.2013 at 22:30
Thank You. I will look into those.

Do they all do the same thing? Or would you use certain ones to do certain projects?




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Connor

Posted By: John Connor
Date Posted: 17.Aug.2013 at 00:38
Several do 2D; only a couple do 3D.

I don't know the individual traits of each and every CAD program I've listed.  If you are really interested you will either test each one yourself, find a review written by someone knowledgeable in CAD, or join a forum that is primarily aimed at each program and start asking questions.  Sometimes you just have to get your hands dirty rather than rely on someone else to do all the work for you.


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"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

<<AutoCAD 2015>>

Posted By: heinsite
Date Posted: 20.Aug.2013 at 09:54
SketchUp is still free too.  It's 3D by design.  Easy to learn and can also include layers.

Dave.


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Dave Hein, P.E.
Hawaii District Engineer
Kona International Airport
AutoCAD Certified Professional
Autodesk Expert Elite


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