hi guys so today's video is about exporting your CAD drawings into PDF and
then importing them into Photoshop so let's get started so the first thing
that you need to do is check your units and you can do that by typing units and
then from the properties menu you can check if it's in millimeters or
centimeters or meters we're going to need that information in the next few
steps I'm also going to overkill to make sure that I don't have any duplicate
lines and to do that you need to type in overkill so these are the settings that
I normally use but you'll have to change them according to your own drawings
because it's different from one drawing to another so just play around with it
until you're happy with the result I would always have the layer ignored so
that it doesn't remove duplicate lines within the same layer so now if we go
down to here we can see that there is a model and then we have two layouts we're
going to create a new layout and by right-clicking we can rename the layout
so I'm gonna name into plans because that's what I'm exporting
if we click on it the sheet and we also have a window that looks into the model
but for now let's delete that and set out the page size so to do that we're
gonna go to print and then go to page setup click on modify and then from here
we're gonna change the the printer to DWG to PDF and then I'm going to change
my paper size so I'm gonna change it to an a3 because I know it will fit one of
my plans in one to fifty scale so if you want to make sure your drawings are good
quality you'll need to figure out the appropriate scale of your drawings to
the paper side
so then I'm going to keep this one-to-one and notice here it says
millimeter so if your units was in millimeters then you will leave it as
one-to-one but if for example you had centimeters then you would put ten to
one and if you had meters you put a thousand to one because a centimeters
would have ten millimeters and then one meter would have one thousand
millimeters so then for the plot style I'm just gonna go with monochrome you
can create your own style but I usually just go with monochrome because that
will print everything in black and white check the display plot style so then you
go into quality you can change this setting to make it higher quality but
for me personally I always used normal and my drawings always come out great
but if your drawings are coming out as low quality maybe try increasing the
quality in this setting and see the result also check plot transparency and
that means that it will show if you have transparent layers such as hatching so
from here as well you can check if it's portrait or landscape I'm gonna do it as
landscape from here you can choose to add a title block or you can just leave
it as an empty page I'll show you how it looks with a title block so you can
either draw it on the actual sheet or you can just copy and paste it so now
we're gonna have to create the window that looks into the model to do that you
have to type in V ports which means viewports so you can leave the settings
as they are because we're just using a 2d drawing but if you are exporting a 3d
model then you'll have to change those settings a little bit but for a 2d
drawings they don't really matter so you can just click OK so now I'm gonna
create the box and the viewport now you can see your drawing inside the sheet
and you can move around it's really cool actually
and you can even zoom in and out but we want it to scale so if we go down here
you can choose one of the appropriate scale on this menu so I'm going to
select one to 100 to show both plants adjust its location and once I'm happy I
can done lock it so that way if i zoom in and out it will not affect it and
then from here you can just print it with the title block but for me because
I'm important Interphone shop renderings I won't be needing the
title block so I'll just select everything and delete it and then I'm
going to change the scale into one to fifty so that I have only one plan make
this box a little bit smaller so that it doesn't show the other plans and then
lock it so now you can export it with all of the layers but what I like to do
is to export every layer separately when I'm in a rush I will just export all of
the layers together but for this video let's export every layer so you can just
turn off all of the layers go into export PDF and export one at a time
for walls I like to export the exterior and interior together but you can also
export them separately once you've exported all of your drawings now we can
head into Photoshop to import them so one way to do this is to go into open
and select the floorplan with all of the layers
and make sure the resolution is 300 as well to make sure it's high quality so
then from here we can add a new layer underneath the plan call it background
and fill it with white and lock them so now the top layer which is the drawing
layer I like to set it to multiply so that it doesn't affect any of the layers
that I add to it and then any layers such as colors and textures will be
between the background layer and the first drawing layer so now the other
option is to import multiple PDFs into one drawing so for that we can go into
file scripts load files into stock so then from here you can browse and select
all of the files that you want to add so these would be all of the layers and
then leave these unchecked because we've already made sure that they are aligned
so we won't be needing to do anything here just press ok so now you'll just
have to give it a few minutes to import all of the layers into one file so
basically what Photoshop is doing is opening each drawing separately and then
placing it into one document
so once you have all of the layers open what you can do is group them together
again lock it and set it to multiply and then rename the layer into CAD layers
and then we could do the background layer
so to get rid of the text on the edges you can either crop it but if you want
to make sure that the page is still a three just add a new layer and with a
hard brush and one hundred opacity you can colour over it
so now if we zoom into the drawing you can see that the line weight is there
but in some areas doesn't show very clear and I don't know why that happens
in Photoshop but once you print it all of the line weight should be there but
if you want to double check and have it so it will also add a bit more contrast
into the drawing you can just go to the layer walls and add a stroke pixel
stroke should be enough and that's the final plan I hope you guys found this
video helpful let me know your process and how you import your CAD drawings
into Photoshop because there are many ways that you can do it so let me know
your process in the comments down below I'm Rasha Shrourou and I'll see you next
time