A scanned part drawing, a template someone photographed, a pattern printed to PDF, redrawn as clean vector paths at real size. Pick the page, convert it, cut it.
✦Drop a PDF here
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, TIFF, or PDF. Any size.
Open the converter3 free conversions. No card required.
Zoom in on a line in your PDF viewer.
It is a scan or a photo: a picture of a drawing, with no geometry inside. This page is for you.
Real conversions from PhotoCAD. Drag the slider to compare the scan with the vector.
Download the vector and go. Or set the real size, add dimensions, and lay it out on a titled sheet, all in PhotoCAD's Editor.
Click two points and enter the distance between them. The whole drawing scales to match.
Import the page as an image in Inkscape or Fusion and draw over it. Exact where you were careful, and nothing you did not draw.
Exact geometry from a vector PDF. From a scanned one, the image back or a trace in fragments.
Most PDF to DXF converters do one job: they read the geometry stored in a PDF that a CAD or design program exported. That works, and Inkscape does the same for free. But it only works when there is geometry to read.
A scanned PDF is a different thing. A component drawing that went through a scanner, a template someone photographed and saved as PDF, a pattern printed from a book: there is no geometry inside, only a picture of a drawing. A converter hands the picture back, or runs a trace that follows every speck and fold line in the scan, and the cutter refuses the result.
PhotoCAD redraws the page instead. It reads the drawing on the scan and draws it again as clean paths: straight edges, smooth curves, closed shapes. Most scanned drawings carry at least one dimension, so click its two ends, type the number, and the file scales to real size. Download a DXF that imports at that size into LightBurn, SheetCAM, VCarve, Fusion, or AutoCAD.
Closed outlines a cutter can fill and offset, and smooth curves where the drawing curves, not a chain of short segments following the scan.
A gasket, a bracket, or a plate drawn on paper decades ago and scanned to PDF. Set the real size from a dimension on the drawing and cut it.
A sewing pattern, a stencil, a template printed to PDF: the outline as closed paths at its true size, ready for the cutter.
Drop in a scanned PDF and see the drawing redrawn as clean, closed vector paths.
Your first 3 conversions are free — no card required.
It holds real geometry. Inkscape opens it and saves a DXF exactly, free; so does a vector PDF converter.
Drop it in. A multi-page PDF opens a page picker, so a 200-page manual needs no splitting: pick the page with the drawing on it and only that page is converted.
PhotoCAD reads the drawing on the page and draws it again as paths: straight edges, smooth curves, closed shapes, without the scanner noise or the fold lines.
Set the real size from one dimension on the drawing, then download. DXF for the machine, plus DWG, SVG, and PDF from the same conversion.
Add dimensions, text, and arrows, point to point or locked horizontal and vertical.
Choose a sheet from Letter to ARCH E or A4 to A0, set the scale, and fill in the title block.
The drawing at real size in model space, with the sheet as a layout. DWG, SVG, and PDF included.
Someone redraws it for you. Fine for one file; slow for a shop that gets drawings every week.
PhotoCADClosed shapes and smooth curves at real size, with DWG, SVG, and PDF alongside.
A scanned drawing usually shows a dimension. Click its two ends, type the number, and the whole file scales to match, in millimeters or inches.
Written as AutoCAD R2000, which every CAM package we have tested imports. Older software that wants R12 can have it: switch it on once in your account settings.
DXF for the machine, DWG for the CAD office, SVG for the cutter that prefers it, PDF to check on paper. One credit covers all four.
A design saved as a PDF by a customer or a client, turned into the closed paths a plasma table or laser needs.
The scanned page brought into AutoCAD, Fusion, or SolidWorks as real geometry to measure and build from, rather than an image reference.
