

This format has now become a standard for sharing documents between different operating systems.Īs one of its main purposes is cross-platform transfer, PDF Files are usually created from other documents of a different format.

Formerly known as Adobe Acrobat Reader, the software was developed and released by Adobe Systems as a tool for creating multi platform, fixed layout documents. If you would like to learn more about the tools available to you in the SOLIDWORKS drawing environment, consider CATI’s SOLIDWORKS Drawings Training Class.The PDF extension is used by the page layout files created with Adobe Reader. Use these workflows anytime you have legacy or customer PDF’s that you need to be able to display on a SOLIDWORKS drawing. Browse to the picture in your files, insert and scale as necessary.

Ensure the “Display as Icon” checkbox is selected. Open SOLIDWORKS drawing you would like to insert the PDF intoģ. This would allow anyone with the SOLIDWORKS drawing to open the PDF in the PDF viewer of choice. You could insert the PDF as a shortcut icon to a linked file. You may have PDFs of legacy parts, technical specification sheets or some that customers have sent that you now want to insert into a SOLIDWORKS drawing to add clarity or update notes.
