Hello
Just wanted to show the quality difference between an import of a PDF into Vectorworks and then SketchUP.
Are there any settings to improve the import quality of PDF’s into SketchUP? This import into SU is barely usable as a traceable drawing.
Thanks
VECTORWORKS IMPORT PDF
SKETCHUP IMPORT PDF
You can open the PDF in Preview and export it as PNG, with the DPI set to 300. That will give you a huge image with a lot of detail. You also would want to go into Preferences, OpenGL, and check the box that says Use maximum texture size.
Alternately, if you have Adobe Illustrator, or another application that can read PDF and export DXF, you could export the PDF to a DXF file, and import that into SketchUp. It would then look perfect, and you would have actual geometry that you could use, instead of having to trace everything.
Hi Colin thanks for the quick reply. I’ll try those suggestions. Cheers
Amazing results. Thanks again.
Hi Colin - I know we’ve been through this topic before, but the results I’m having from a scan are not giving past results. Scan was of 24x36 sheet to PDF. I tried methods as you stated in past but results are not producing clear results as before - any thoughts on why. I tried both method you suggested in past and results are very blurry. Attached is PDF scan if you could take a moment to view? Thanks!
scan139.pdf (105.1 KB)
Sorry I didn’t see your message. Sometimes replies to old posts don’t show up in my list of posts to look at.
Your PDF has no antialiasing in it. Don’t know how you scanned the document, but scanning it as grayscale instead of bitmap should make it look slightly nicer.
