I’m using SketchUp Pro 25.0.659 on a Macbook Air running OS Sequoia and I’m trying to draw over an imported pdf file. But for some reason, it’s as though the pdf weren’t flat. I hope the attached screenshot helps explain. As you can see, I draw a rectangle for the whole area and then a rectangle for one of the rooms, but the outline doesn’t define the rectangle - there’s a part that not included. Actually there are three parts.
This isn’t true for the whole plan, but at least for this part. Why is this happening and how do I fix it.
Related to this, does anyone know of a pdf import extension for 2D pdf files? One that doesn’t cost an arm and a leg!
Thank you in advance. A very pleasant day to you all.
What do you hope to gain with this? On Mac you can already import PDF.
Do you hope to use the lines as geometry / to be able to snap to them? That is not possible with a raster PDF, it can work with a vector PDF - but you would convert it to a DXF or DWG first, and then import it.
The PDF you have imported looks hand drawn and will be a raster image, even if you try to convert it to a CAD file the data is not here.
May not be relevant in this case, but I often scan a scaled paper drawing. I find that if I do so as a PNG, I get much sharper lines than the fuzzy ones you tend to get with PDF capture.
As for vector PDFs, I have heard of them but, rather like the elusive Snark, I have never seen one in the wild.
FWIW, it’s not that hard to extract vector linework from a vector PDF. Using a view of one of my models in LayOut to avoid copyright issues. Viewport here is rendered as Vector.
Note that the PDF file format is designed to render printable pages. Compared to CAD it is much more inaccurate. But certainly the native support for vector PDFs in SketchUp would be a welcome new feature.
