can i convert autocad .dwg file to a .jpg? - Diesel Forum

**johnm** · 12-25-2007, 11:53 PM

anyone know of a free program that does this?

johnm

88beast · 12-26-2007, 12:32 AM

try infranview i think that will open a cad file
or gimp i know for sure gimp will open cad files
newer more professional versions of cadd will be able to send to print as a jpg at that point just move from the temp files but idk if your version does that with the old file format

amb2958 · 12-26-2007, 01:17 AM

http://www.faqs.org/qa/qa-5511.html

Straight from a Google search... hope this helps.

amb2958 · 12-26-2007, 01:19 AM

I would also suggest converting to a PDF version if you have Acrobat, much easier to deal with.

**johnm** · 12-26-2007, 01:32 AM

using autocad 2000i land development and i have full adobe V 5.

thanks for the suggestions.

added note.. couldnt figure out the distiller process.

on edit
tried several of the ones from google search. none worked well. they dropped some object lines and some of the dimension lines.

if anyone has a converter that works well, would you convert a dwg for me?

johnm

**Dick Cutting** · 12-26-2007, 06:13 AM

Sent you a PM John.

**Kanman** · 12-26-2007, 01:51 PM

Do a Print Screen (its a key on your keyboard) > Paint Program (open paint) Edit > Paste > Save as .JPG and your done.

Sounds ten times harder than it is, and literally takes about 2 seconds to accomplish. The Paint program is already installed on your computer.

Band_Member · 12-26-2007, 02:15 PM

In my prioritive CAD program I save the file in a format that I can convert in my graphics program.

In my case I save my vectorized file as a .dxf then import that into Corel Draw (paintbrush type program) then I save it as a JPEG.

The only thing I do in addition to that is make sure there is a border trace around the drawing.

Hope that helps you some.

Dieselmaster · 12-26-2007, 02:34 PM

here is one good for 30 free try's... you have to pay after that..

http://anydwg.com/dwg2img/

surveyor13 · 12-26-2007, 02:39 PM

Do a google search for cutepdf writer. Download and install program it's free. Once installed open your AutoCAD drawing, plot and chose cutepdf as the the printer, chose page size and scale then plot and it will ask where you want it saved. Open pdf and save as a jpg., tiff. or whatever you want.

Jerrod

OMCUSNR · 12-26-2007, 06:05 PM

John,

Does it need to be at scale? Or can you plot to fit sheet?

A screen capture (shift printscreen) will give you what's on the screen. If you need to plot to scale on a specific scale, the Adobe acrobat is your best bet. In Acrobat V7, it installs just like a plot driver, so I just pick it for the plotter, and tell it what scale I need to plot (if I'm in model space).

Using Adobe will allow you to select a larger sheet than "legal" or "tabloid" as well.

OMC

88beast · 12-26-2007, 07:59 PM

i got a few converters for all files

**johnm** · 12-26-2007, 08:05 PM

thanks for the help from all of ya. i'll try several of the options given me and keep them for future ref. i solved my problem after sleeping on it for a few hours. i 'm almost embarassed by this though.... i finally selected my printer for acad and wahla... [img]/forums/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/blush.gif[/img]