How To Make Pdf From Solidworks Drawing

Automate PDFs of SOLIDWORKS Drawings

PDFs are a ubiquitous requirement in daily applied science life. You lot might have Purchasing or Sales asking you to ship out PDFs of drawings for a vendor to quote or to a client for blessing. Wouldn't it be nice to set up a process that would automatically create PDFs for you?

Luckily, there's an reply: SOLIDWORKS Job Scheduler! Here's how it works…

Run across the Task Scheduler

Start, run the Task Scheduler from your Windows First carte du jour.

In one case information technology comes up, choose the Export Files chore in the pane. When the dialog appears to fix the task, click the dropdown pointer under "Export file blazon" so choose Adobe Portable Document Format (*.pdf) from that list.

Choose folders that have SOLIDWORKS drawings y'all want to make PDFs from, and set a fourth dimension to run the task. Click "Stop" and the task will run immediately, or run at a future time you lot set.

That's it! You tin can even set this task to run daily, weekly, or monthly so the PDFs generate automatically.

Stop the Scheduler for Blueprint Work

Note that considering the Task Scheduler is running SOLIDWORKS in the background to get this chore accomplished, you don't want to run this when you already accept SOLIDWORKS running for design work.

Considerations

A few other things to ready for and exist enlightened of:

With whatsoever SOLIDWORKS add-ons that require you to log on with a username and password (such every bit in PDM systems), please fix SOLIDWORKS not to turn on the add together-ons at startup.
If you lot're using a floating license of SOLIDWORKS, you may either opt to run your tasks when nobody else is around or set your licenses to not expire immediately after closing SOLIDWORKS.
When running your tasks at night, make sure that your IT section doesn't have a setting which either logs you out or turns off your machine when the job is scheduled to run.

We hope you accept advantage of this simple way to automate PDF creation. Enjoy!

This blog is authored by John Setzer, GSC's Training Product Director. John discovered his love of pedagogy early in life. He worked his way through college as a youth coach, umpire, and referee before earning his bachelor'due south degree in education. Equally Training Manager at GSC, he has been sharing his SOLIDWORKS wisdom with GSC customers e'er since – 21 years and counting! John is a Certified SOLIDWORKS Expert (CSWE), a Certified SOLIDWORKS Instructor, and a Certified SOLIDWORKS Technician. As the only CSWE with a state certification in teaching, John is well-versed is educational activity all types of learning styles. John is a regular contributor to the GSC blog, available at www.gsc-3d.com/manufactures.

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