How to Convert .DWG to .JPG

What CAD program are you running?

Several CAD programs have that option. If your cad program doesn't you can do the following.

Expand the drawing to full size, then click the print screen key. Open up Paint (located under accessories) and paste your screen shot that you created when you clicked on the print screen key. Paint allows you to save the image as a .jpg

How about this option:?

Download the FREE AUTOCad Truview:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=6703438

Open the .DWG and print to a ghost PDF printer?

And if you need a good FREE PDF printer:

http://www.cutepdf.com/Products/CutePDF/writer.asp

This is what I was also going mention (I use it for my CAD). It allows you to simply print to a PDF file instead of a printer.

Easy.

If you are using Autocad 2006 or later versions, you can simply use the command "jpgout" in the command line while your .dwg file is open on the screen. You will be asked to select the view or part of it as a window indication. I have made my entire website using this command option.

Please try and inform if you please.

D.Ramakrishna Naidu

THANKS A LOT SANDMAN. IT IS INDEED AS USEFUL AS YOU SAID!! I HAVE VOTED A GA FOR YOU after testing it out.

Regards.

D.Ramakrishna Naidu

First plott to PDF, if you have the Adobe capability installed as one of the plotter options in AutoCAD. The PDF is an option in the "Plotters" list in "Plot Manager" in AutoCAD. You can also use "995" software the same way, if downloaded and installed in the Plotters list to plott to PDF. The 995 is free but a taste cumbersome, and shows ads all the time, etc. but it does work. The PDF file can be opened and then be saved as a jpeg file. This is the best way. You can also select the drawing objects you want and right click (in model space) and clipboard it into a Word document, using the "Copy" tool. You can then play around with cropping to get rid of the white space and resize it, etc. You can also use the "Insert Object" tool to insert an AutoCAD drawing into a Word document which works with a paper space drawing. I am not sure about other techniques, these are just rough and ready techniques I found out for myself. May or may not work for you , your machines and applications, but I just threw them out there as an option.

I suspect quite a few CAD programs allow for saving as JPG. I use Turbocad and it does. It is .DWG compatible. You can easily get, not so old, versions of Turbocad Deluxe (say v.11-v14) for pretty cheap on-line ($10-$20). Just shop around.

Screen capture will not give as good results. But when I do want to perform screen capture I use Irfanview (no connection to the author I just like it). It is a nice picture editing program.

I don't like screen grabs, I would download DWG TrueView 2010 from Autodesk's website (http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=6703438).

From this you can plot the file picking "PublishToWeb JPG" as the plotter. Very simple and much better resolution than using screen grabs.

true. screen grabs lose some detail, and sometimes the more important ones are those that get lost. :(

hello :
check out the imaging tool kits at www.accusoft.com

the evaluation is free and the purchase of the tool kits are reasonably priced.

kevin

klee@accusoft.com

Regards.

Open the .dwg file & capture with any Screen-Capture program like IrfanView & save as jpg.

These appletts have 3/ 4 options for like fore-ground, full Window, client area etc,

try as needed due to size of drawing.

Irfanview has a lot od options :

Some info:

This free image viewer and converter supports an extensive list of formats: Supported file types: AIF, ANI/CUR, ASF, AU/SND, AVI, AWD, B3D, BMP/DIB, CAD formats, CLP, DDS, Dicom/ACR, DJVU, ECW, EMF/WMF, EPS/PS/PDF, FITS, FPX (FlashPix), FSH, G3, GIF, HDR, ICO/ICL/EXE/DLL, IFF/LBM, IMG (GEM), JPG2000, JPG, JPM, KDC, LDF, LWF, MED, MID/RMI, MNG/JNG,OV, MP3, MPG, MrSID, NLM/NOL/NGG, OGG, PBM/PGM/PPM, PCX/DCX, PhotoCD, PNG, PSD, PSP, PVR, RAS/SUN, RAW, Real Audio (RA), RLE, SFF, SFW, SGI/RGB, SWF, TGA, TIF, TTF, TXT, WAD, WAV, WBMP, XBM, XPM, CRW/CR2, VTF, DNG, NEF, ORF, RAF, MRW, DCR, X3F, PEF, SRF, EFF, DXF, DWG, HPGL, CGM, SVG etc.

Support for Apple QuickTime allows IrfanView to read following formats: MOV, QTIF, Mac PICT, FLI/FLC

Some features of IrfanView: Multi language support, thumbnail option, preview option, slideshow, skins, drag-and-drop support, fast directory view, batch conversion, e-mail option, audio CD player, print option, change color depth, scan support, cut/crop, IPTC edit, effects (sharpen, blur, Adobe Photoshop filters), capturing, extract icons from EXE/DLL/ICLs, lossless JPG rotation, EXE/SCR creation, many hotkeys, many command line options, many plug-ins

& more every new version

IrfanView a verstile PIX & Media player & converter <http://www.irfanview.com/>

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thanks for the answers and when I will have more time, then I will try some of the suggested program.

Thanks again :)

Regards.

All "Viewers" by MS, or a 3rd party can only display ; good or bad; & can allow print.

In my view & experience with "Viewers" is as it is.

May be some "Viewers" which convert also ????????

Yes Sir, I know a good program to convert .DWG files to .JPG files. I peronally use it at my workplace. It is called as Universal Document Converter. It is absolutely free to download. and it is super fast unlike other DWG to JPG converters. try it at www.print-driver.com