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Macro for PDF creation

Macro for PDF creation

Macro for PDF creation

(OP)
Is anyone aware of a macro that will create pdf's of SolidWorks drawings? We don't want to create our pdf's until the project is released after our Change Notice meeting is finished, thus we have to go back and open up each file individually and create them.

Thanks!

RE: Macro for PDF creation

If you have the Office or Office Pro version of SW, you can use the Task Scheduler to do this.


Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Macro for PDF creation

Search in SolidWorks API help for "Print Document and Save as PDF (VB)".  It gives an example on how to do this (I have not tried it however).

RE: Macro for PDF creation

Get a print driver plug-in like pdf995 and just print directly to a PDF file.

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RE: Macro for PDF creation

(OP)
We have Solidworks Office 2006- where is the Task Scheduler?

RE: Macro for PDF creation

I stole this from the SolidWorks discussion forum where someone asked the identical quesiton.  Credit goes to a Jan Venema

Quote:

swtools.cad.de there is a program PAC

Regards,

Regg

RE: Macro for PDF creation

Start > All Programs > SolidWorks


Helpful SW websites  FAQ559-520
How to get answers to your SW questions  FAQ559-1091

RE: Macro for PDF creation

(OP)
The macro page is no longer available....can someone provide a new link?

Thanks for the tip on the Task Scheduler- would I run this macro under the "Run Custom Tasks"?

RE: Macro for PDF creation

(OP)
After some research, I found we have the ability to print to a Bluebeam PDF printer. I tried to run a "Print Files" to our PDF Printer. The task completes, but it never creates a pdf of the drawings.
Anybody have any ideas on what might be happening?

RE: Macro for PDF creation

I use a free program called "PrimoPDF".  Like "Bluebeam", it sets up a printer for you and allows you to print to your real printer while it creates the PDF file or just print it to screen in Adobe Acrobat Reader.  It works really well.

www.primopdf.com

RE: Macro for PDF creation

The best way to do this is to integrate the PDF Printing into your PDM or PLM package's lifecyle states so that the PDF generation is automaticall performed when the drawing is set to a given lifecyle state.  

TriMech Solutions, an east coast SolidWorks and Conisio VAR has a number of such applications for various PDM & PLM systems.

I hope this helps.

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