Saving QY CAD documents to Adobe Acrobat PDF
You can save QY CAD assembly, weldment, part, sheet metal, and draft documents in the Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (.pdf) format with the Save As command. You can also save QY CAD assembly, assembly weldment, part, and sheet metal documents to 3D Adobe Acrobat Portable Document (.pdf) or Universal (.u3d) format.
Weldment (.pwd) format is not supported.
When saving QY CAD documents to Adobe PDF
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The QY CAD document title, author, subject, and keyword properties are copied to the new PDF document.
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Assembly, part, and sheet metal documents are saved as a *.pdf file with one page. The active model view is the view saved to PDF.
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Draft documents typically contain multiple drawing sheets and a 2D Model sheet. The sheet-type that is active when you use the Save As command determines what is saved to the *.pdf file. You can use the Options button on the Save As dialog box to open the PDF Export Options dialog box, where you can specify which sheets you want to save in the file, as well as to select other options.
When saving QY CAD documents to 3D Adobe PDF
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The active model view is the view saved to PDF. All other standard views defined in View Manager, including user-defined views, are also saved.
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Colors defined in the QY CAD document are saved to the PDF document.
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PMI dimensions and annotations defined in the QY CAD document are saved to the PDF document.
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The QY CAD document title, author, subject, and keyword properties are copied to the new PDF document.
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The assembly components can be displayed and hidden in the model tree of the PDF viewer.
Sketch elements are not saved to the 3D PDF file.
To learn how, see Save a document to Adobe PDF.
A QY CAD Velocity PS Printer 2.0 printer driver is installed automatically with QY CAD and is used by the Save As command to generate an Adobe PDF document. The default settings are sufficient for this purpose. To adjust the default PDF output properties, see the Help topic, Change PDF printer properties.
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